The Huge Blog

          Today sadly our teacher was absent today at school so my blog is so long today, so I hope you’re in the mood to read and learn some things like I did. The first thing I have learned is from the World Fact Book about the five major religions. Christian is 31.4%, Muslim is 23.2%, Hindu is 15%, Buddhist is 7.1%, and the last one is Jewish is 0.2%. These percepts are worldwide so that how many people believe that religion in the world according to the World Fact Book. Another interesting fact about religions is Abraham’s effect on three religion. The first religion is Judaism and they call Abraham the first Jew, Father of Judaism, and the Jews father of Covent. He also has a special relationship with God and people. The second religion that Abraham has an effect on is Christianity. His effect is that his a Patron Saint of those in the hospital industry, he is in the calendars of Saints, and Christians call him “Our father in faith”.  The final religion is Islam and his effect in this religion is that he is mentioned in thirty-five chapters in the Quran. For those who don’t know what a Quran is, it is their Holy Book. Some other effects he is the first Pioneer of Islam and had a purpose and mission that took his whole life. His purpose/mission was to proclaim the Oneness of God. They also called him “Abraham the Friend”.

              A little later in class we had to do some research about the practice of indulgences and why we thought Martin Luther objected to indulgences. Indulgences is a way to add the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins. To do this you could either make your sin forgiven or you go to Purgatory after you die. But before this happens you could say a specific prayer or visiting a particular place. You say the prayer once or many times, or you could do a specific work that is good. Now Martin Luther objected this because he was taught salvation all his life and he thought you only get forgiveness is from God’s grace through faith. You didn’t need to do good work if you had faith in God and that’s how you redeem from sin. I have also found this in Wikipedia.org for the research part.

             Two more things I had learned today was about Haji and the Four Vedic texts in use by Hindus. Haji is a Muslim who went on a pilgrimage to Macca. It is also use as a term by a lot of people towards Arabs and Muslims in general.  The four Vedic texts are The Rig-Veda, The Yajur-Veda, Sama Veda, and finally Atharva-Veda. The Rig-Veda is the most important and the oldest of the Vedas according to schoolers. The Rig-Veda is also divided into ten books. The second text is The Yajur-Veda and it is used for priestly handbook used for the performance of Sacrifices. This has four books but is divided into two sections. The first section is the earlier section which is black and the second section is the more recent one ad that is white. The third is Sama-Veda and it consists of chants to be sung during worship and the performance of sacrifices. Lastly the Atharva-Veda and this is hymns most importantly four books. There are also four types of composition or divisions. The first half deals with performance of sacrificial rituals and the second part consists of philosophy. Over all even though this was a lot of information I’m happy I learned a lot.
                                                              
                                                    (Here is a picture of what a Haji looks like.)