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Today in the world there are more than 5000 religions, but the main are only three – Christianity, the Buddhism and Islam. All of them help the person to find meaning of life and to understand for what it comes in it the world. They unite in themselves belief in the highest spiritual powers and continuation of existence of soul after body death. About what religions happen, it will be told in this article.
What religions exist?
Who is interested, what religion is the most widespread, should answer that Christianity. Her followers worship Jesus Christ – the son Bozhyem who sacrificed himself for sins of all mankind. This religion is practised by about 2.5 billion people worldwide. There are its certain currents, such as Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy which differ from each other a little, and from Christianity numerous sects broke away. The second in prevalence religion is Islam. Prophet Muhammad preached faith in the one God Allah in 600 years prior to birth of Christ, here and today Muslims of all countries honor it as the greatest seer and the sacred doctrine Quran which to it was sent by Allah.
The Buddhism arose approximately at the same time, as Islam. This religion arose in India and today her main followers live in Asia and the countries of the Far East. The Buddhism urges to enter nirvana and to behold life such what it is. Practice of self-restriction and meditation confesses. Who is interested, what religion is very first, should answering that the Hinduism which arose in 1500 BC.
However, it is also not the uniform system of religious exercises and includes such schools and cults as Krishnaism, Tantrism, Shaivism, etc. The Hinduism never had the founder, the uniform system of values and the general doctrine. Those who is interested what dogmas are professed by the oldest religion in the world should telling that particular importance is attached to the personal creator or God, the impersonalny Absolute and also a plyuralistichnost and not absoluteness.
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