Religions

Christianity was started around 30 A.D. and founded in Palestine.  Christianity is a monotheism religion.  Of course, this holy book is called “The Bible”.  There are 2 billion+ people that are in the Christianity faith.  The central figure in Christianity is the Pope.  The USA and Brazil have the most Christian people living there currently.

The Islamic religion was founded in 632 A.D., in Mecca.  Islamic is monotheism, because they believe in one God.  There are 1.57 billion Islamic People living today.  The central figure in Islamic belief is Allah.  The main geographical concentration is in Africa and Middle East.

 Buddhism was founded in 460 B.C.  Under a Bodhi tree.  Buddhism is neither, monotheism or polytheism.  Buddhism again does not have a holy book.  There are 230 to 500 million Buddhists around the globe.  The central figure is Buddha, the fat and jolly guy you see meditating. Tibet has the most Buddhists in that area.  Hinduism was founded in 1500-500 BC.

  Hinduism was founded by an institution of Seven Sages called Saptarishis.  Hinduism is a monotheism religion.  There is only one truly main book.  That’s called the Vedas.  There are over 1 billion people in Hinduism.  Hinduism doesn’t really have a main God that they worship, it’s a cluster or different Gods doing different tasks.  There are 700 million Hinduism in the entire world.

Judaism was founded in Israel over 3500 years ago. The largest Jewish population is found in the United States and in Israel. It was founded in the land of Israel.  Today it is the smallest monotheistic religion in the world.  They have the Torah.  The total population is over 13.4 million.  Abraham, Moses, Isaac, Jacob are the ones are the central figures. In 2001, 8.3 million Jews lived in the Diaspora and 4.9 million lived in Israel.