NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
- Five Major Religions
- Christianity
- number of adherents: around 2.2 billion (largest in the world)
- called Christians
- geographic location: Europe, the Americas, southern Africa
- Denominations: Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants, Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, many more
- Founder: Jesus Christ
- Holy book: Bible
- Beliefs: Jesus is both human and divine - the Son of God; led a virtuous life; he was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected; he ascended into heaven where he reigns with God the Father
- Clergy: the Pope is head of the church, priests are local authorities
- Islam
- number of adherents: 1.5 billion (second largest)
- Muslims
- Geographic location: Indonesia, Middle East, north Africa
- denominations: sunnis 75-90% shiites 10-20%
- founder: Muhhamad (570-632)
- holy book: Quran
- monotheistic, Abrahamic, five pillars, testimony, prayer, alms-giving, fasting, pilgrimage)
- see purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah and observing Islamic law
- Hinduisms
- number of adherants: 1.1 billion (third largest)
- called Hindus
- India and Napal
- holy book: the Vedas - eternal truths revealed to ancient sages; written in verse form (meant to be sung and easily memorized)
- no founder
- series of intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a rigid, strict set of beliefs - probably the oldest religion, although Hinduism is less of a religion than a way of life
- as a person puts on new clothes and discards old and torn clothes, similarly an embodied soul enters new material bodies, leaving the old bodies
- reincarnation
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