Christianity is the biggest Religion in the world with just about 2.2 billion adherents. A majority of these adherents are located in Europe, the Americas and Southern Africa. Although all of these people practice Christianity they all do not practice the same denomination of it. In Christianity the most popular denominations are Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestants ( Lutherans, Methodists, Baptist, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and many more). All of these denominations have the same base though. They believe in the Bible, Jesus is both divine and human, he is the son of god, he led a virtuous life; he was crucified, died, buried and resurrected. But only catholics have a clergy. The pope is the head of the Catholic Church and priests are local authorities.
Islam:
Islam is the second largest religion in the world with 1.5 billion adherents. The places with the largest number of adherents to Islam is Indonesia, North Africa and The Middle East. Instead of calling them Islam's you would call them Muslims. Unlike Christianity's many denominations Muslims only have 2 different denominations, The Sunnis and The Shiites. The Sunnis make up most of Islam's people with about 75-90% of Muslims and the remainder being Shiites. Both denominations believe that Muhammad was there founder and they follow the Qur'an. They are monotheistic and have the five pillars. Muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah (God) and observing Islamic law.
Hinduism:
Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world with 1.1 billion adherents. We call them Hindus for short and most of their adherents reside in India and Nepal. The holy book that they follow are the Vedas or eternal truths revealed to ancient sages; composed in verse form so that they can be sung, and easily memorized. The four Vedas are Rig-Veda, Sama-Veda, Yajur-Veda, and Atharva-Veda. Hindus have no distinct founder but they have a series of intellectual or philosophical points of view.
Buddhism:
Buddhism has a large range of numbers of adherents. The range is between 500m million and 1.5 billion Buddhists. Most of these Buddhists live in Southeast Asia, China, Nepal and Japan. There are also 1.2 million Buddhists in the United States alone. They follow there founder Siddhartha Gautama and also have a few denominations like Christianity. Some denominations that they have are Tibetan, Zen, Thereavada and Amidst. They do have two different things that they also believe is a good way to live life, The Four Noble Truths and The Eight Fold Path.
Judaism:
Judaism is the ninth largest religion in the world with 14-18 million adherents. Most of the adherents live in Israel and the United States. They have the Torah and they are monotheism and believe that god is one and is concerned with mankind. They also follow the 10 commandments and 13 principles of faith.
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