monothesim and?
As suggested, there are 3 families of religions across the world: Abrahamic religion, Dharmic religion and Taoic religon.
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I want to sleep... Today is not Friday unfortunately - I have to go work tomorrow morning.
Oops...
posted by =DOC=Cai-Fan at
1:10 am
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Okay, I woke up...
These are just some general knowledge, I write them down in order to remember them, that's it.
Obviously, the Abrahamic regligions are all pure monotheism. The God for Judaism, Christianism (and all new testament followers), and Islam is the same one and the only one. The God have unlimited power and everything is in his control, the universe and the law of the universe is created by him. The role of human is interesting in Abrahamic religions. In fact the Islam is the most direct - obey is the only thing for human to do before the Allah. And for the believers of old/new testament, they are waiting for the rescue - the rescue can only done by the God. Islam is a religion born in the hand of conquerer and the old Islamic empires/kingdoms were all religion-goverment unified, it has strong social structure as well. The God praise and reward the loyal servant, punish those who do not obey. In another hand, Jews wrote the old testament (the Tanakh) during the long suffering, and Christianity also grew in the bottom layer of people within the Rome Empire in the beginning and finally became a strong power. They are religions rooted in the people being oppressed. The sin (for Christian) or betrayal (for Judaism) were the cause of all the suffering and thus are inherited from the ancestors which have nothing to do with the God. And the God saves the people by mercy. Though the religions developed for thousands of years and the conceptions or direction may change, the genesis always is unchanged.
My idea about the religons are very superficial and unsystemic, so before I am satisfied with the knowledge I have in this topic I will not talk about my opinion here.
- to be continued
So then comes the Dharmic religions. I wonder if count them under this name is right or not. They all admit the Dharm, the concept of life circle is a common point too. They have no bible - there are so many literature and no one is overwhelming (except the Sikhism). They all put more emphasis on meditation, self control etc than Abrahamic. The way goes inside, not outside. But there are lots of differences. Hindunism is a polythesim, Sikhism is a monothesim, Buddhism and Jainism have no "real" god. The ideas of these religions also confilict some times. Buddhism is way like Christianity, found its soil outside of its birth place, this is a good topic to look at.
I'm not familiar with Jainism, Hindunism or Sikhism, I will put them after some reading on Abrahamic religions. Good plan.
At last is the Taoic religion, began in ancient China. Tao, is the ultimate law, and the source of the universe. It is something like Dharm, but even more strong than it since Dharm never becomes material itself. Everything begins from Tao, and thus everything in fact is one thing. Tao is both mobile and immobile, it contains all antinomies. This is a rather mysterious concept in all. There is no god or metempsychosis.
Another interesting title is the Zoroastrianism - the earliest religion known. It is founded by single people, just like Islam. This is a bi-theism religon, two gods, the light one Ahura Mazda and the dark one Angra Mainyu fight each other. The universe and human being are the consequence of the victory of Mazda. The principle and sacred book of Zoroastrianism is called "Avesta".
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