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The World of Faith and Religion of the 20th Century (Part One)

Disclaimer

When thinking about the situation of the World at this stage is an extreme distress for anyone who reads this blog but to assure you, I am not writing this blog to criticize anyone or any type of religion. It is just a study that I made and in with a bit of knowledge that the world has given me as resources to investigate for this topic.

Introduction

Hi, my name is Ryan David. I am a British citizen who has only been in this country for few years. To be exact 7 years in total. I was born in Bahrain in the middle east and you might be thinking am I an Arab or Muslim. No, I am a Christian and an Indian who had shifted to Bahrain from India. So, let us get to the subject. I left Bahrain after two months after I was born and came to this land of opportunities that is what my grandparents used to say. We arrived for the first time in the UK around 1999 and was here till for one year left for personal stuff back to India came back 2003 and remained there for around two to three years I suppose. Then we left for India for 7 years. I think that was a brilliant idea. Not only for a child’s mindset in a common aspect of teaching me the traditions, culture and language of our motherland. To me that 7 years were amazing we had a nice home and wonderful neighbors, friends and family close by with a bunch cousin on either side of the family. After the amazing 7 years, my mum had to go to the UK every other 6 months to renew her NHS number or PIN so while she was there, she was going through the procedure of bringing us back to Uk for University. This is when we heard the unknown factor in the UK citizens policy that I had to be in this country at least 3 years before me going into the Uni and to be in the UK before I turn 16. Now, this was even shocking to us as I was turning 16 in the next month. So, what we had to go through was intense as when my mum reached back from the Uk we were getting ready to catch the next flight back to the UK as a whole family.

Religion and Faith

“Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.”

“Faith, derived from Latin fides and Old French feid, is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as confidence or trust in a system of religious belief. Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.”

These are the main definition that you would receive if you searched it on google. That is what normal people would do but, in this case, I would love to put these definitions in my way or a simpler term that I understand. Religion for me it all to do about concern and love that you would express for the fellow members that is or isn’t in your traditions and spiritual ways. In todays world there is harsh violence especially when it comes to the distress that everyone faces when they here the word Corona or in scientific terms COVID-19.  I am going to create a blog on this matter of concern on how it spread and how the world is copping with this matter at hand. Coming back to topic people are scared which is normal in this situation were people are struggling in the hospitals to grab some air. Talking about hospitals they were not prepared for this crisis at all. The lack of ventilators in the hospitals shows you the distress that the world face at the current time.

We can see how people can’t even see their loved ones for the last time before they taken back to soil. This is truly a disastrous thing to happen to the humankind. But as a normal person I think stuff that makes the right things look wrong at times. Sometimes when looking how this occurred, we can think that the nature is giving up on us. But anyway, that is just an opinion. When talking about Faith for me it quite the similar thing as religion but sometimes people take religion to an extreme that makes me to believe that faith is more important that religion.

Types of religion in the world now

The religions spectrum is forgotten in today s world it is meant to be love, care and how the father helps us to find true love or eternal love. First before we go into this, let us see the types of religion that the world offers today.

 Christianity 

 Muslim

Irreligious or atheist

 Hinduism

  Buddhists

 Sikhism

 Judaism

 Spiritism

Jainism

These are the main religions and beliefs. The religion with the highest population is Christianity. Which consist of 20 countries ranging from 100%-93.5%. the next in line is Muslim which a bit like Christianity which I will explain later in this blog. The Muslims consist of two types they are “Sunni” and “Shi’a”.  Most of the Muslims in the world are more than 1.5 Sunnis - estimates suggest the figure is somewhere between 85% and 90%. In the Middle East, Sunnis make up 90% or more of the populations of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Next is the people who don’t believe in any religions or the absence of belief. The countries that have the highest number of atheists are:

 China

  Japan

  Czech Republic

France

Australia

Iceland

 In America there is around 10% of atheist even when the dollar states an interesting phrase that is rather weird it says: “In God we Trust”. Approximately 40% of American atheists are ages 18-29, and 37% of atheists are ages 30-49. This is normal as this is the growing country and more people think practically but the biggest religion, though, is Christianity, which is practiced by an estimated 2.4 billion people in the world.