Christian and Islamic Religion
From the beginning of humanity the majority of people on the Earth are faithful and not new millenium, which came with advanced science and with lots of pieces of knowledge, didn’t changed this fact and just probably one of the six people don’t profess religion.
Religion
What is religion
Religion is the steady system of conceptions of existence of supernatural truths, that are beyond reach of our sensible experience and understanding, which share a group of beliefs. It is the system of thought considered to be supernatural, sacred and divine also as the faith in highest truth, god or in gods.
The number of adherents
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism are the largest world religions today. Approximately 75 % of mankind follows one of these four religions. Christianity is the religion with the largest number of professed religious adherents (2.1 billion), followed by Islam (1.3 billion), Hinduism (900 million) and Buddhism (376 million).
But the third largest group of about 1 billion people (include Humanism, Atheism, Rationalism and Agnosticism) is unfaithful.
In 1950 were 94 % people in the Czech Republic faithful, but in 2001 just the third of Czechs are faithful and almost of them (26 %) are in the Roman Catholic Church.
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion, Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament. Christianity began in the 1st century as a Jewish sect, today is Christianity separated into Roman Catholicism, Eastern Christianity and Protestantism. In each part there are several Churches like the Roman Catholic Church in Roman Catholicism, which is the biggest one.
Christian Beliefs
Christians believe in following:
Jesus, who was born of Mary, a virgin who conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, is the Son of God and is One with God.
They believe that Jesus suffered, was crucified, died, was buried and then he was resurrected and ascended into Heaven.
That Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead and people who repent their sins will be forgiven and anyone can have salvation.
Ten Commandments
Ten Commandments, which were written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets are:
- You shall have no other Gods but me.
- You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it.
- You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
- You shall remember and keep the Sabbath day holy.
- Respect your father and mother.
- You must not kill.
- You must not commit adultery.
- You must not steal.
- You must not give false evidence against your neighbour.
- You must not be envious of your neighbour’s goods. You shall not be envious of his house nor his wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.
If you have some sins, you can’t take the holy wafer, but majority of sins are forgiveable, if you are really sorry for that you have done, you can do confession. But there is also sins that are unforgivable. It means that you won’t never do confession next time; e.g. if you divorce your’s wife, it won’t be forgiven.
Islam
Islam is said to be the second largest religion in the world, with about 20 % of the world’s population calling themselves Muslims. However, Islam is the fastest growing religion, and it will probably outnumber Christians sometime around the year of 2020.
Islam is the youngest monotheistic religion that organizes all aspects of life. Islam establishes all your duties and rights in your relationships with God, yourself, your children, relatives, neighbours, guests and other brothers.
Five Articles of Faith says in what Muslims believe and The Five Pillars of Faith says what they have to do.
Five Articles of Faith
The five articles of faith are the main doctrines of Islam. All Muslims are expected to believe in Allah, angels, Scripture, prophets and in last days.
- Allah is one and only god. Muslims believe that there is one true Allah, who created the whole universe. (“Allah” is the Arabic translation of the word God.)
- Angels exist and interact with human lives. Each angel have different purposes or messages to bring to earth and every man has got two angels who record his actions. The first angel records good deeds whilst the second bad ones.
- Scripture. There are four inspired books: the Torah of Moses, the Psalms (Zabin) of David, the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Injil) and the Qur’an.
- God has spoken through prophets, the six greatest of them are: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, who is the last and greatest Allah’s messenger.
- On the last day there is a time of resurrection and judgment. Those who follow Allah will go to the Islamic heaven, those who not will go to hell.
The Five Pillars of Faith
The five pillars of faith are observances, duties that each Muslim must do.
- Creed. To become a Muslim, you must publicly say: “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah.”
- Prayer must be done five times a day (upon rising, at noon, in mid-afternoon, after sunset, and before going to sleep) in the direction of Mecca.
- Almsgiving. Muslims are legally required to give one-fortieth (2.5 percent) of their income to poor people.
- Fasting. During Ramadan Muslims fast from sunup to sunset each day. They should abstain from all food and drink.
- Each Muslim is expected to make the pilgrimage to Mecca (for those who are able) at least once in their life.
And finally, there is a sixth religious duty, which is associated with the five pillars of faith - Jihad. Jihad means Holy War that all Muslim mens have to join because of defending or spreading Islam.
Islam habits
What Muslims musn’t and profess:
Muslims musn’t kiss woman or take her by hand in front of children, eat pork meat, drink vine and muslim womans can’t study. In Islam world womans are owned by mens and one man can have four wifes. Muslims profess motto tit for tat and agree witch public executions and lashings. They insist on loyalty, veracity and courage and disapprove cant and lie.