Tuesday, June 7, 2011

What is religion?

What is religion?
-The worship of a God/ God’s
-Guidelines about how to behave
-answers to life’s biggest questions.

What are beliefs?
-The acceptance and commitment of an opinion or conviction.  

Explain the following terms:

Animism:  Developed while humans were living as hunter-gatherers. Animists believe that humans and animals (and   sometimes even plants and rocks) have a soul or spirit.

Polytheism:  Nature soon became thought of as gods given specific names and Animism became polytheism (belief in many Gods.)

Monotheism:   The ancient Jewish people started following monotheism meaning the belief in only one God.

Agnosticism:  Uncertainty about God or gods.
Atheism:  Belief in no gods.

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