10/18/12

Today In class, we continued to go over the top five most influential religions in the world. We reviewed the Islam faith, which was founded in the year 622 AD in the City of Mecca. Despite popular belief within Islamic populations, Muhammad is the globally accepted founder of the Islam religion. Islam is an Abrahamic religion meaning that the ideology that stems from Muslim beliefs comes from “Abraham” just like Christianity and Judaism. There are at least 1 billion Muslims and it is one of the fastest growing religions in the world.

Then we talked about Buddhism, which was founded by Siddhartha Gautama in the year 622AD. Buddhism is a way of life and not a “religion” in the same sense that the “Western” perceives it. Then we talked about Hinduism, which is apparently a religion that is not very understood by Mr. Schick. However, what was funny is that Mr. Schick asked me if I was Hindu. I was like…”NO”. Anyway, I do not think that there are ANY Hindu people in Africa never the less Nigeria. That is a summary of my class period.