religion
... a building or meeting place to gather at such as a church for example. They also have a simple that they worship such as the Star of David or a Cross. They all have different types or styles of clothes that the pasture or priest wear. They usually meet on certain days of the week or weekend such as Catholics meet on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sundays. They all have a service that they learn about the religion and their higher being. They have books and other stuff about what the higher being has wrote or told someone. They eat and drink only certain things. Such as the Catholics can't eat meat on Fridays through lint. Religions can be classified into monotheistic and polytheistic. Monotheistic: the belief or doctrine that there is only one God. Exoteric Monotheism is a particularily persuasive and widespread worldview, possibly because it is easy to anthropomorphise the supreme Reality into an external creator deity, most often male, a projection perhaps of patriarchial chieftains or a parental father into a sort of supernatural father figure Although literal monotheistic belief may be useful for the spiritual development of those with particular personalities that require such belief, this sort of religious structure is tragically frequently associated with attitudes of intolerance, persecution, and arrogance It is interesting to consider that materialism and capitalism are in fact natural outgrowths of monotheism - e.g. Lutheran biblical rationalism, the Calvinist work ethic, etc. But still one has to concede that perhaps this was a necessary stage that human consciousness had to go through, for without materialism and capitalism there might not have been the industrial revolution and technological development of the West the last two centuries. Polytheistic: the worship of or belief in more than one god. Polytheistic is a very harsh label to place on any professing Christian religion. One who is polytheistic is one who believes that there are many "gods." For example, "Jehovah's witnesses" believe that Jesus is a mighty god and Jehovah is the almighty God. Any way you slice that it still comes out two gods. Virtually all cults are polytheistic. So one who is in a religion that is polytheistic is in a cult. Now, at this point the "good" catholic is screaming that I am catholic bashing or I am "anti-catholic," but that could not be further from the truth. If what I am saying is true, then every "good" catholic who loves the Lord should run for the hills with their Bible in their hands. If I am mistaken, it should be very easy to prove. I think Christianity has had a big impact on America. All the holidays are taken into consideration at schools so we can have them off. They have changed the names of the breaks so it doesn't sound religious but it really is. America is based on Christianity. Look at our money again, it has "In God We Trust" on all of it. people came there so they could practice the religion they want to. Some American Christians go to third world countries and help them b...