Religion: What Splits Muslim Society
If to get deeper in understanding the concept of Jihad, it is possible to find that wrong understanding of holy war could cause some tensions. The original meaning of Jihad is to make an effort in order to achieve Allahs mercy. This means that every true Muslim should observe Five Pillars of Islam and should strive to do his best in obeying all the laws. Islam teaches that all the people are sinners (Koran 16,61) and that salvation can be obtained only through observing the Five Pillars. T ...
Religion: Bhagavad-Gita
The Bhagavad-Gita is not an epic telling of the rise and fall of rival powers, or of the great actions of warriors. It is a spiritual book in which, not only the truth about the inner Self of man is revealed, but also the hidden motives, and the way in which they may be transcended. Bhagavad-Gita teaches how to obtain control of mind and body.
Human beings, according to Bhagavad-Gita, live in an illusionary, dualistic world. The world they perceive as real is illusionary; it is full of materia ...
Religion: Christianity
Another way in which the great Greek philosophers served Christianity was to call the attention of the Greeks of their day to a reality that was greater than what they experienced everyday. Both Socrates and Plato in the fifth century B.C. Taught that this present world of the senses is only a shadow of something else, and where the highest ideals are such intellectual abstractins as the good, the beautiful, and the true. They insisted that reality was not temportal and material but spiritual ...
Religion: Vodun Belief
Followers of Vodun believe thāt eāch person hās ā soul which is composed of two pārts: ā gros bon ānge or "big guārdiān āngel", ānd ā ti bon ānge or "little guārdiān āngel". The lātter leāves the body during sleep ānd when the person is possessed by ā Loā during ā rituāl. There is ā concern thāt the ti bon ānge cān be dāmāged or cāptured by evil sorcery while it is free of the body.
The purpose of rituāls is to māke contāct with ā spirit, to gāin their fāvor by offering them ānimāl sācrifices ...
Religion: Jesus and Buddha
Siddharta Gautama, called by many as Buddha and the father of Buddhism, was born B.C. 560 near the town of Kapilavastu. His father, Suddhodana, was the king of the Sakhyas. Prince Siddharta did not want for material comforts. Nevertheless, he was profoundly dissatisfied . He observed that most human beings were poor and continually suffered from want. Even those who were wealthy were frequently frustrated and unhappy, and all men were subject to disease and ultimately succumbed to death. Surely ...
