it's actually quite modern and desirable for the modern world. Confucianism, as a living tradition, is inspiring, not just for the present, but for the future as well. It's as valuable as other great traditions that humans have produced, including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, liberalism. ...
World religions is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate the five—and in some cases more—largest and most internationally widespread religious movements.Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism are always included in the list, being known as the "Big Five". What is...
Not Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. TexasDude (25274)“Great Answer” (2) Flag as… @Adirondackwannabe People (mostly non-Buddhists) have argued for centuries about this question. Buddhists themselves tend to find it beside the point. It comes down to how one wants to define “religion”,...
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are major monotheistic religions. We all have one God, but we evidently don’t share the same rules about how God wants us to behave. So when we stick up for our religious beliefs, we’re like children on a playground taunting, “My God is righter than ...
After all, it is Judaism (and Islam) that have ritual animal sacrifice (factory farm cruelty designated holy), not Christianity (and yet Christianity gets all the focus and criticism for the media, both the corporate press and the so-called alternative left media). Western media has been ...
Unfortunately, there was a lot of 1980s pseudo-feminism that took a similar attitude to that of Christianity and Islam, problematising displays of female beauty and even expressing disgust with heterosexuality itself. The worst offender was the egregious Andrea Dworkin – who died relatively young ...
I feel like I am not the only one to whom it was a surprise that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are derivatives of the same book. There are overlapping characters and storylines and the basic tenets are pretty much the same. What is different is who the agreed prophets are (if any) ...
it's Christianity and Judaism versus Islam. --Cindy We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter... --John Sladek (The New Apocrypha) Offline Like button can ...
Those are quotes from the holy books of four of the world's five main religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Biblical Judaism permits it in certain cases - provided you immediately marry the girl you've just slept with, of course ("If a man seduces a virgin who is not ...
9. Ethiopia is a country where the three most influential religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam meet. 10. Ethiopia is a country of dramatic scenery. 11. Ethiopia is one of the oldest Nations in the world, more than 300 years of history. ...