Thursday, June 11, 2009

ISRAEL'S RELIGONS



Israel is the only place were Judaism is a majority religion.Their is 14.6%Muslin and 2.1 Christianity. Israels gods are all based on the bible.

PAUL: Paul had to do wit allot with Judaism.
Also the Jewish people were all considered gods. Their is no evidence in the bible rejecting people. God constantly reminded the Jewish people who were called Israelite in the old testimony in the freedom of slavery. While if is true that many of the Jewish people have rejected Jesus, there is never any excuse for bigotry and only Semitsm .Many of the first Christians believers all 12disciles the writers of the bible and Jesus himself are all jews.






























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GREECE'S RELIGIONS


Religions in greece were mostly based in godds. Some gods wereaphodite,the gooddess of love. apollo,god of ligt putity guidone healing and music. Last was zeus.zeus eas the king of gods,thunder lightning gold ans leing. They also relied on oracle .They belived that they gave guidence and advice.

MORE GODS:
ARES: Ares was the Olympian god of war and the figure of all kind of violence. He was the son of Zeus and Hera. He also had a step sister named Athena. He had a hard time with his character.That is why nobody wanted him as their partner.

ATHENA: Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war. She was daughter of Zeus and mentis. She liked to learn mankind skills such as weaving and sewing. After competing against the greek god Poseidon, Athena officially became the patron deity of the city of Athena Nike.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

MESOPPTAMIA' S RELIGIONS


One of their religious beliefs was that the drawings on the walls would really happen. They say that they would draw an animal and then that animal would be their.they also believed in the 4 gods . Their was many more gods in Mesopotamia but the 4 gods were the mostinportant. 4 GOD One of the 4 gods was the god of the sky. This was the highest of the4 gods. next was Enlil who could ether produce raging storms or help man. Then came nin-khursagshe was the earths goddess last was enki the water god and patron of wisdom.

EGYPT'S RELIGIONS


Egyptians beloved in the afterlife that is one of their religious belief. One of the other religions was polytheistic (many gods) religion with one short period of monotheism (one god). The religion hosted about 700 different gods and goddesses.

GODS AND GODDESSES
ANUBIS: Anubis was the god with the jackal head.he was the god of embalming and the dead. Anubis was the god who watched over the process of mummifying people when they died . Priests were a mask of Anubis during mummification ceremonies. HATHOR: Hathor was the goddess with ears of a cow. She also has a sun disk on her cow like ears. She was a protective goddess and also the goddess of love and joy. Hathor was connected with foreign placeses and materiels. For insrance hathor was the goddess of the desert and turquoise mines in the sinal.

ATEN: Aten was a sun disk god with rays witch end in hands. He was a form of the sun god Ra. During the reign of akhenaten the aten was made the'king'of the sun.

ROME'S RELIGIONS


Their is alot of religions in Rome. Some of the early religions are Fetishism,and Numia.

Fetishism and numia: fetishism was the belif that the magic ofdevine power of inammate obejects. But fetishism must hav every early developed into Animism.

Animism;the feeling of the sacrednessof the ocject into the sence of indweling spiritNuminia:the powers whitch the object of witch they worshiped
GODS:The Romams belived in many defferent gods and goddesses.They always had a god and goddess incharge for everithing.EX: Mars was the god of war.It ment that he wa aood fighter ans had his solders at his heart.In the year AD 312 something very important happened, something which should change Roman religion forever. The emperor Constantine the Great said he hada sign from the god of the Christians in a dream in the night before he had an important battle. Emperor Constantine won this battle and thereafter showed his gratitude to the Christian god by turning his entire empire over to this new religion.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

India's religions


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Their is allot of religions in India. Their is Islam, Sikhism, Christianity.
Islam: Islam spreed from the west through south Asia in the early 18 century . It became the largest minority religion in India.
Sikhism: Sikhism witch started in Punjab in the 16 century. It has spreed throughout India and the world since the mid-nineteenth century.
Christianity: represented by almost domination trace history to the time of Oposrais(god).Background to life and death of Jesus Christ The story of his birth to a virgin, Mary in a stable in Bethlehem is told in the writings of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament. His birth is believed by Christians to be the fulfilment of prophecies in the Jewish Old Testament which claimed that the Messiah would deliver the Jewish people from captivity.

GODS

Brahma: Brahma is the god of creation,an inportant paricara deity iamong the hindus.he is seen whith 4heads representing 4vedas(4yugas). myth has it that he said that he would not be worshiped witch evedence is found in the absence of the temple worshiping him.

Shiva: Shiva is tha god of distroction.he is worshiped in the form of linga. He allways has alot of energy. people say that he has the devil in his heart.

Kali: Kali is the denine mother in a more vilent form. she id the goddesse of time oand death, witch is kala when shiva ans guri is united that distructive way is formed.

AFRICA'S RELIGIONS


Thre are many religions in Africa. Some of the religions are Abrahomic, Hinduism,and Judaism. Th Abrahamic: The majority of the Africans abhereents of the abrahamic religions: Islam, Christianity. It is base on their beliefs so theirs 45% are Christians and 40% are islam.
Hinduism: The history of Hinduism in Africa is very shorten comparison to Islam. However it dates back to pre-colonial times and even med level times.
Christianity: Although Christianity existed far before the rule of King Ezana the Great of the Kingdom of Axum, the religion took a strong foothold when it was declared a state religion in 330 AD. Pinpointing a date as to when Christianity emerged in Ethiopia will always probably be a mystery. The earliest and best known reference to the introduction of Christianity was when the evangelist Phillip converted an Ethiopian traveler in the 1st Century AD from the Acts of the Apostles. Although the bible refers to them as Ethiopians, scholars have argued that Ethiopia was a common term used for encompassing the area South-Southeast of Egypt.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Chinas Religions




Some of China's religions are:Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism.
Buddhism which came to China as early as first century A.D . 68million Chinese still consider themselves Buddhists. It was usually based on local gods and served as local gods.
Christianity Missionaries have been in china since the seventeen century. During the Mongol dynasty , Nestorian and roman catholic churches were establishes ,but only served to mongol people instead of local Chinese.
Confucianism lived for 551-479 B.C in the state of L.U. he came from a family of officials and his concern with the restoration of (dao) of the ancient ages. however,in 59A.D doring the hayn dynasty. It was decreed that sacrifice should be made to Confucius and this began a process which was to make Confucian philosophy into the foundation of the Chinese political order.

GODS:
Ao: Ao is the 4 dragon king named Ao chin, Ao kuang, Ao jun and Ao shun. Each was responsible for a part of earth ans an area of sea.

Chin -nii: Chin-nii is the goddesses of spinners weavers and clouds. she rules over handcrafts and rain.