Why Don't People of Different Religions Co-Exist?

Two religions that generally don' t co-exist are the Islamic faith and Judaism. To begin, not all Muslims hate Jews and not all Jews hate Muslims but historically Jews are descendants of Abraham's son Isaac and Arabs are descendants of Abraham's son Ishmael. And Biblically Isaac an Ishmael didn't have a good relationship. Ishmael was the son of a slave woman and Isaac was the promised son who would receive the blessing from Abraham. So from the start the two were in disagreement. Later on as the religions holy books were written there was still disagreement on who was the promised son. The Hebrew Scriptures say it was Isaac. The Qur'an says it was Ishmael. Also in the Muslims holy book, the Qur'an, it tells Muslims that at one time they should love and respect Jews as their brother and if the Jews refuse to convert to Islam then the Muslims should attach. Which if you're a strong Jew and you come in contact with a Muslim and you don't convert it would honestly be a very scary thing. All these things show the non-co-existence of Muslims and Jews and there is still more check out this site for previous and additional information.

JUDAISM

Judaism

(Approx.) The eighth most popular, practiced, religion in the world. With about 13.3 million people following this religion to this day.

Foundation

In c. 1300 B.C. Abraham founded the religion of Judaism in Mesopotamia. (Above is Davids Star and a Hanukkahs Menorah)

Number of Disciples & Locations in the World

About 0.22% of the world today are Jews. And the majority of them are located in Israel, Europe and the U.S.A.

Holy Readings/Religious Texts

Their holy readings and religious texts consist of the Torah, the Tanakh and the Old Testament from the Bible.

Religious Celebrations/ Holidays

The major holidays of Judaism is Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Sukkot (the festival of Booths), Hanukkah, Tu B'Shevat (the New Year for Trees) and the Pesach Passover.

Religious Customs

The Jewish rituals are birth ceremonies, circumcision for the boys, on their eighth day of life, marriage ceremonies and death mourning.

(Above is the Jewish symbol Davids Star)

Special Religious Dress

Jews normally wear quite normal clothes (pants, and a t-shirt), but for certain religious ceremonies they wear things like a prayer shawl, white robes, a kipa (clothing you must wear to enter a synagogue), and a garb (traditional Jewish wear).

Highest Positions

In Jewish culture they answer to the president, the council, and the rabbi.

Beliefs

Jews are a part of a monotheism belief, which means that they believe in one God of whom they worship. Christianity, the worlds most popular religion, was actually developed from Judaism. The difference is that Christians believe that Jesus Christ (0 B.C.- 33B.C.) was (and is) the Messiah, but Jews believe the messiah is still yet to come.

How could my community be more friendly?

I think my community is not very friendly at all. And I think that we should all be friends and not have any problems with each other at all. But it doesn't work that way, so I'll have to do some work. So what I was thinking was that I could invite my entire neighborhood over for a cook out. And even though some people come for the free food they' ll be making friends (or enemies) and not even know it. And by the use of free food I can force people to talk and converse with one another. Even if they don't talk and it's just a big blow out of food with no conversation they might even see someone they never even knew were neighbors with them. Next I could have everyone say there name, so that when some one's taking a walk and see' s someone they remember they could maybe say like "Hey Joe ." and then, "Hows it going Larry." and there's friendship for you. Spreading throughout the community.

Some Cool Site about Video Games

So I found a site about video game addiction. For the first couple of paragraphs it compared the first video games to modern day games, like Pong and Xbox Live. It gave examples to addicts like some one who was addicted to a certain internet game and committed suicide while at his computer. This site would be for a person who has no social life and only sits with his or her gaming system every chance they get.

The Cardinals

True Statement: The Cardinals are the Best MLB Team in the history of the world! Amen!

My Neighborhood Community

As a part of Team 3, I am excited to be blogging this year on the topic o f co-existence. My neighborhood is quite small. It consists of my family of six, my next door neighbors of six, apartments, and condos. Besides my family and my neighbors all my other neighbors are old people. All of the old people live in the condos. The people in the apartments are all to poor to have either a car or a job, so they sit in there house watching TV all day or they walk to work and work all day, come home, eat, sleep, repeat. The problem is that none of us converse at all except for sometimes my next door neighbors.