Religion
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Submitted by sencaka on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Religion
Religion believes the spirit and the mind of the believers. One may say that a religion is a pattern of teaching and practice related to a community, which relate to their basic ways of life. Every religion has their own ways of beliefs and ways of life. There is a similarity among all the religions, which is salvation. Believers believe by performing rituals and prayers they will get salvation from their god. Even some believers believe in exchange of performing rituals and prayers they will acquire a great power beyond his environment, like a supernatural being. Most of the believers commonly just pray for salvation, to be prosperous, and spiritual comfort.
Some religions there are little or no historical backgrounds about their beginnings and yet the number of their believers is increasing. Most of the people don¡¦t even care whether their religions exist. Due to some culture, their heritance have to follow whatever their parents¡¦ religions are. For example the Muslim, their son and daughter have to be a Muslim. Muslim families do not encourage their heritance to choose their own religion, because it will disgrace to the whole family and friends. More or worse they believe they will go to hell for changing religion. Muslims are forbidden to eat or touch pig or pork. They believe evil spirit has possess the pig, who ever eats it they will full of sins. Some say the pork is poisonous. A lot of people eat pork and they are doing fine. In this situation the Muslims cannot explain it. Most of them are just following their parents or their ancestor beliefs blindly. They have no intention to find out whether all the beliefs its true or, just a myth.
Indonesia is the biggest population of Muslims in the world. There are two types of people living in Indonesia, Indonesian and Indo-Chinese. Indonesian are the real people of Indonesia, while the Indo-Chinese are immigrants from China and Taiwan. Some Indonesians and most of the...
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