Elements of Religious Traditions

Most people learned that because of their disobedience to God (Jehovah) we live long-suffering lives. This brings forth the question of Religious. What is the meaning of religious? According to experiencing the world’s religions: Tradition, challenge, and change “Religion is a way of life founded upon the apprehension of sacredness in existence. p. 5 Molloy, M. (2010). Religion is something taught to some people when they were growing up as a child, or sometimes people do not learn about religious until they grow up as adults. However, whenever people learn things, they start to dedicate their lives to what they know or learned. Nevertheless, personal items or ways of beings could become scared in our lives.

However, because they believe in such does not necessarily mean that they are religious, just that they believe. One can have something very sacred to their heart and not be religious. Many denominations of religions in this world; the one we are most familiar within the United States are Christianity, Nonreligious/Secular, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Agnostic, Atheist, Hinduism, and more.

According to Adherents. com (2005), “In February and March 2002 the Pew Research Council conducted a survey of 2,002 adults ” (Top Largest Religious Bodies in the United States, para. ). Christianity is the number one religious preference in the United States (2005). Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior of man, and the Son of God. Therefore, Christians teach that to have your prayer answered you must end the prayer with “In the name of Jesus Christ. ” Nevertheless, Christians believe that Jesus Christ is man’s redeemer. However, in Indigenous their religion traditionally believe in Chukwu, or Chineke, which is High God, Igbo people worship, Molloy (2010).

Lgbos are considered as Christians, “Lgbo believe in an individual spirits resembles people” p. 51, Molloy (2010). Christians believes that people have souls. When I studied with Jehovah’s witnesses I learned that their beliefs where different from Baptist beliefs. Jehovah’s believe that if someone in the congregation commits adultery or are caught committing a sin of any kind he or she is dis-fellowship from the congregation. I disagree with this belief because Baptist believes he who has not sinned cast the first stone, and that people are not to judge each other for their sins.

Jehovah’s witnesses believe that holidays, such as Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and Birthdays are paganistic holidays. Nevertheless, Baptist believes that Christmas is the day Jesus was born, and Easter is the day he rose from the grave. Although both of these religious believe in God, they both have their own scared traditions and studies. In knowing the difference between belief, being sacred, and being religious we develop our own sense of what we want to know and trust, to bring truth to our lives.