RLG100Y1 Lecture : Religions Lecture Notes.docx
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Religion is not just a set of beliefs, state of faith, or doctrine; for some it"s a doing things according to commandments; more about faith ; a state of faith, the activities and rituals that people do. Morality- tools and guide lines of right and wrong; people can be moral and not religious; Meta-analysis=bigger picture of what you are looking at. Something we don"t really talk about are the early ideas of jewish traditions agriculture: transformed onto a new social context after the abrahamic and. Judaism interpretation=fuel of rabbinical judaism: orthodox, reform, and conservative jews. Jewish- they may not be declaring their religion, may be ethnicity; may not be a practicing jew-secular: monotheism. To love the one god with all your heart and all your soul. Scholars talk about how in some of the earlier of the hebrew bible there"s ambiguity in saying that there is one god and all the others are fake or there is.
