'Living Religions Essay\r'

'Learning or so other(a) pietisms has caused me to question my fill religiosity. It reminds me of when I was a down younger, when I would chance on an appraisal of myself based on my observations of other people. I used to gauge myself by what I dictum in others. Today, reading about Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and other religions has moved(p) me the same way. To be frank, I was caught rather moody guard by their experiences.\r\nIt’s ironic that we make to read about other religions and how their followers apply their faith, in order for us to stop for a while and take a closer look at how we practice our own religion. The knowledge about other religious practices prompted me to comp ar them with the practices of my own religion. One of the cardinal pillars of Islam, for instance, the daily demanders, which requires Muslims to make time to pray fin times a day wherever they are, (Fisher. 2005. Islam) has make me run across how seldom I pray in a day.\r\nI was br ought up by my parents to pray every night before going to bed, and that’s it. Now I wonder if I’m not doing enough praying, or whether my own religion is merely less demanding. Another is the hajj, a expedition to their holy sanctuary, the Ka’bah, which was supposed to have been built by Abraham with the help of his son, Ishmael. (Fisher. 2005. Islam) I bet that going to such(prenominal)(prenominal) a pilgrimage even once in one’s lifetime costs a lot of money †but the particular that Muslims are doing all they potty to save for it speaks a lot about their piousness.\r\nIn the case of Judaism, reading about the holocaust which killed around six million Jews during humanness War II simply overwhelmed me. (Fisher. 2005. Judaism) I can’t seem to get over the fact that a simple church membership got that more people killed. And yet the Jews remained steadfast in their faith. Confronted with such naked cruelty, I could not help communicate m yself the inevitable question: What would have I through if my parents were killed in that holocaust?\r\nWould I have remained a Jew in spite of it? Faith, I know, would still occasion in the end. The foregoing observations about other religions have not diminished my faith in my own. If at all, it strengthened me. I have come to realize that faith in God conquers all. References Fisher, M. P. (2006). Islam. Living Religions, one-sixth Edition (pp. 362-416). Prentice-Hall. Fisher, M. P. (2006). Judaism. Living Religions, Sixth Edition (pp. 226-283). Prentice-Hall.\r\n'