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SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/05/2010 : 03:57:57
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If you are having a slow day and feel a need to "broaden your horizons," as it were, you might enjoy browsing this list of beliefs that make otherwise reasonable people crazy throughout the world. As it is the Abrahamic religions that concern us the most, I am excerpting those:
"The Abrahamic religions (also known as Abrahamic faiths, Abrahamic traditions, religions of Abraham, Abrahamic monotheistic religions, semitic religions, Semitic monotheistic religions, and Semitic one god religions, etc.)[1] are historically the world's three primary monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which share a common origin and values. The origins of Abrahamic religion are found in Judaism, which began in the first and second millenium BCE in ancient Israel and Judah during which time the Hebrew Bible was composed. Some 1,500 years later Christianity was formed by the Jewish followers of Jesus of Nazareth and is based primarily on the New Testament books. Islam was founded by Muhammad in the 7th century CE upon the teachings in the Quran which commonly refers to Israelite figures like Moses and David, and also to Jesus. For some 1,300 years their histories and thought have been intertwined. They are considered inextricably linked to one another because of a 'family likeness' and a certain commonality in theology.[2] They are faiths that recognize a spiritual tradition identified with Abraham.[3][4][5] The sacred narratives of all three of these religions feature many of the same figures, histories and places in each, although they often present them with slightly different roles, perspectives and meanings.
Today, there are an estimated 3.8 billion followers of these three Abrahamic religions,[6] accounting for more than half of the world's population.[7]
By contrast, the major non-Abrahamic world religions are Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. They are the "Eastern religions" that include the "Dharmic" religions of India and the "Taoic" East Asian religions.
Recently, some have asserted that certain younger smaller religions qualify as Abrahamic, including the Bahá'í Faith."
It continues on at length, and is only a small part of the whole. Some god or other commands that you obtain a cold beverage, some smokes if necessary, and open the link!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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A list of the world's religions.
