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Religion
(Date of origin)
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Dominant
Values
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Explanation for
Evil
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Salvation
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Afterlife
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Buddhism
(Sixth Century, B.C.)
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Right knowledge, aspiration, speech, behaviour,
livelihood, effort, mindfulness, contemplation, control of one's kindness
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Insatiable desires are the cause of evil
and suffering
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Non-attachment to the world; Follow the eight-fold
path; Self-effort; Salvation is through reincarnation and working with
the laws of karma; Mahayana Buddhism has deities which function as saviours
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Nirvana is the highest destiny of the human
spirit---a state of indescribable bliss. In Mahayana Buddhism there are
afterlife states referred to as heavens and hells.
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Christianity
(First Century, A.D.)
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Love of God and man; Ten commandments; Service,
truth, beauty, goodness, justice, humility, learning
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Satan; Fall of man; Imperfection of creation;
egocentricity; alienation from God
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Evangelicals:
Salvation comes from faith in blood atonement
of Jesus;
Mainline: Faith in Jesus as mediatior-Saviour
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Judgement:
heaven and hell;
Modern:
Growth and service in heaven; fading of belief
in an eternal hell
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Islam
(Sixth Century, A.D.)
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Five Pillars:
faith, prayer, zakah, fasting, pilgrimage
Predestination;
Specific rules of conduct
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Satan; Not submitting to the will of Allah;
Allah beyond human questioning; Accept life as is
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Submission to the will of Allah; Living by
the Five Pillars
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Judgement:
heaven and hell; Sensual description of afterlife
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Religion
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Dominant Emphasis
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Scripture and Revelation
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Founder and Origin
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Ultimate Reality---God
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Buddhism
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Ethical self-culture; Four Noble Truths;
Eight-fold Path to Enlightenment
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Tripitaka
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Siddhartha Gautama
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No personal God; no soul;
Buddha Deified
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Christianity
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Jesus as Lord; Fatherhood of God; Brotherhood
of man; Kingdom of God; Church
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Bible; Roman Catholics also accept church
tradition as authoritative
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Jesus of Nazareth;
Paul: Expediter of church development
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God as Heavenly Father
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Islam
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Submission to God; Teachings of Mohammed
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Koran(Qu-ran); Twenty-eight prophets of Allah
(Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, others)
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Mohammed
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Allah
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