Name some religions and a brief description of them?

Question

I don't know much about religions because I grew up in an all Christian home and wasn't taught about any other religions so I would like to get the names of some religions and a little bit about them.
ie who/what do they worship
what is their explination for our existance
what's the name of their holy book if there is one
what happens after we die
how should we live
anything else you can think of

Thanks for releasing me from my ignorance!

Answer 1

I know this isn't exactly what you asked for but I thought you might be interested anyway. Unbiased descriptions of various religions:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/

Answer 2

These are the top world religions by number of adherents. I suggest you look them up on Wikipedia or somewhere else because you may get a lot of biased answers here.

1. Christianity: 2.1 billion
2. Islam: 1.3 billion
3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
4. Hinduism: 900 million
5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
6. Buddhism: 376 million
7. primal-indigenous: 300 million
8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
9. Sikhism: 23 million
10. Juche: 19 million
11. Spiritism: 15 million
12. Judaism: 14 million
13. Baha'i: 7 million
14. Jainism: 4.2 million
15. Shinto: 4 million
16. Cao Dai: 4 million
17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
18. Tenrikyo: 2 million
19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million
20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
21. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
22. Scientology: 500 thousand

(Number of adherents are approximate estimates)

Answer 3

bahai is an offshoot of Islam btw...it was founded by a direct descendat of Mohammed's brother in law...lol true story!

religions lets see: Buddhism: may all be free from suffering. Suffering is caused by attachment. The world is illusion (maya), by clinging to the falsities of the world you suffer and cause suffering. You have many lives to free yourself.

Satanism (ALL forms) : worship of the SELF, the I, the EGO. Self empowerment, self power. Worshipping all createed matter and making that elevated in power is STILL self worship. Thus it is satanism.

Thelema : started by Al Crowley this is a "religion" of ritual magick. Practioners perfom rituals, which consist of meditation, candles, talisman, often bodily fluids, kabbalah and other ooccult practises.
The Goal of Thelama is realisation of the self...the HGA. Crowley was a twit.

Freemasonary: Freemasonary is about coffee and charity. Practioners learn how to make coffee, and also do great works of charity. Of course ther was once much more to free masonary but hardly at all any longer.

Alchemy: lead into gold. The lead of the un enlightend self , becomes the Gold of the spiritually enlightend self. Through tinctures, chemical works, meditation etc. Modern Alchemy is largely just an off shoot of occultism...sadly.

Answer 4

New Age or New Thought.

I believe that everyone in the universe is part of god. We are being used by god to experience and learn about life. When we die we go to a place to rest, which you may call heaven, but then are later re-incarnated into another human life to continue to learn until we can reach true enlightenment, then we return to god as part of god.

There is no hell, if you do not live right in this life you will be punished with bad Karma in the next life. If you do live right you will be rewarded with good Karma or spiritual gifts in the next life to help you fulfill the goal of reaching enlightenment so that you don't have to continue to reincarnate.

Answer 5

Wow you want to ask a good one.
Christianity-Belief that this guy called Jesus Christ died for your sins.
Bahai-an offshoot of Christianity, follows a prophet whose name I cannot pronounce.
Rastafarianism-an offshoot of Christianity, considers Haile Sellasie the Messiah.
Islam-an offshoot of Judaism that follows the teachings of Mohammed.
Judaism-Worship of God Yahweh.
Hinduism-Worship of many gods of different levels, way too many to list today. Has Karma and Reincarnation.
Buddhism-an offshoot of Hinduism, follows the teachings of the Buddha, Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism are offshoots. Has Karma and Reincarnation.
Taoism-Similar to Buddhism-follows teachings of Lao-Tzu. Has reincarnation.

Those are all the ones I know something about, not much, just something.

Answer 6

Judaism believes the old testament. and doesn't believe Jesus was the son of God. their holy book is the torah which is the old testament

Islam believes that Jesus was just a prophet and that Christianity was perverted by Paul. their holy book is the Koran it is spelled either Koran, quaaran, or other ways. the Koran was written by Muhhamed who, they believe, was the last prophet of God and the greatest prophet.

Hinduism believes in reincarnation and karma. reincarnation is the belief that after you die you will be born again in another as another being. karma is basically what comes around goes around and that you are punished for bad deeds you commit now in your next life or rewarded for good deeds you commit now in your next life.

there are others but i dont want to get into them

Answer 7

church of webboffin, you are too ignorant for me to bother with

Answer 8

http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/index1a.html