What is religion?
"A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader."
What are beliefs?
Explain the following terms
Animism: The earliest kind of religion that was developed while humans were living as hunter-gatherers. It is the belief that humans/animals have spirits.
Polytheism: Belief in many gods. The first human civilisations followed different types of polytheism.
Pantheism: The belief that everything is part of one god. Hinduism is more Pantheism than Polytheism.
Monotheism: Belief in only one God. This was what the Jews started following and is in the Old testament.
Agnosticism: Uncertainty about God or Gods. Some Greek thinkers were moving away from religion and developing ideas in science and philosophy.
Atheism:Belief in no Gods.
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