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Belief Systems
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What do we learn?
• Religion basics:
• fundamental beliefs, important rituals, and holy books
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• Religious Beliefs:
• some of the most important beliefs of the world’s religions and how these messages are shared
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• Religious rituals:
• here we talk about the rich variety of religious rituals that give color and taste, holidays and songs, structure and traditions to the world’s religions
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• Religious ethics:
• the values and morals of a religion (the behaviors that spring from religious beliefs). We also cover some of the “hot topics” of our time and how religions are dealing with modern-day issues
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Why?
• because most of us have had some contact with religion (we grew up as Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.)
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• because some of us have little to no knowledge of other religions of the world
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• because some of us are skeptical of the whole religion thing
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• because whether you are a believer or not, religion affects your life (your religion, your neighbor’s religion, religions within your culture, other cultures that interact with your culture, etc.)
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What is religion?
• You can say it’s a belief, but not all beliefs are religions. (I believe my cat is the best cat in the universe).
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• You can say it’s a belief in God.
• That works for monotheistic religions but not religions that believe in many gods (polytheistic) or religions that believe in a chief god and lesser gods (henotheistic)
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• You can say it’s a way of behaving — being decent to others, caring for the environment, etc.
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• But not all decent, caring people are religious
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• You can say it’s a belief in the truth
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• But what’s the truth? Different religions have different understandings of what is “true”
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Definition of religion
• Basically, a religion is a belief in divine (superhuman or spiritual) being(s) and the practices (rituals) and moral code (ethics) that result from that belief.
• Beliefs give religion its mind, rituals give religion its shape, and ethics give religion its heart
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Basic theology
• Every religion has a belief system
• Every religion teaches its own truths about the world and humanity and God (or gods) as seen by that particular faith
• These beliefs explain how followers achieve salvation or enlightenment, who the leaders in the faith are, etc.
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The Western Religions
• Islam, Judaism and Christianity
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• All three religions trace themselves back through Abraham
• Abraham was the first patriarch of the ancient Hebrew families and his descendants became followers of Islam and Christianity
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• Because of this some people call them the Abrahamic religions
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• Beliefs they share:
• all three religions believe that one single, all-powerful, all-knowing God created the world out of nothing
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• Abrahamic religions believe that God gave human beings free will to decide how they would live and a moral code and commandments that would set a path for living a good and holy life
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• Abrahamic religions believe that God will eventually redeem the world from all its sins and imperfections and bring in an age of universal peace