It's+the+Similarities+that+Bind+Us

Differences can make us see only what we believe makes one religion right and the other wrong but when you begin to learn and understand one religion, you grasp the similarities between the two and those are the most important facts when building tolerance to a faith, a culture, and anything else in life that make people different from eachother. For the topic of building tolerance learning information about the different religions I will be discussing is key because I want to bring all that information and see if different faiths are more similar in their practices and beliefs than we know. The three religions or four (if I'm able to cover the Muslim faith) will be the Jehova's Witnesses, Pentecostales, and Catholics. Hopefully I will be able to present all this information into a Prezi but for the time being I'll be posting the information I have on my page.
 * __It's Not How Religions Are Different, It's the Similarities they Practice__**

Who is your God(s)? Jehovah is God and Jesus is his Son. What guides your religious beliefs? The Bible How do you celebrate your religion? We have weekly meetings and on Sundays at Kingdom Hall. Worshipping and praying- During our meetings we preach and discuss how to preach to others with the help from our Elders Elders are mature in their faith What do you celebrate? We don't celebrate any Holidays except for the Memorial of Christ's Death which isn't on a specific day, but we celebrate through the year with parties and stuff. What are sort of like your leading figures (priests)? We have what we call Brothers who conduct the meetings on Sundays to preach and Elders who are there during the week meetings. Beliefs- "Death is more important than birth'' according to a text Revelations 21:4 Do get Baptised How do you pray? We put our head down and close out eyes in prayer. The prayers are very loose, you don't repeat prayers
 * __Jehova's Witnesses__** Interview

Who is your God(s)? We believe Jesus is God What guides you religious beliefs? ''The Bible. Everything we believe in comes from the Bible.'' Strictly? Yeah, pretty strict How do you celebrate in your religion?- We have church Sunday mornings..people under 18 have Dominical church school and the grown ups have service...they pray for petitions and ask for offering and they sing hymns and then the pastor preaches...Sunday afternoon theres' church too Worshipping and Praying- ''When we pray we raise our hands, you can kneel, bow your head but its optional, you don' have to... and when the pastor is preaching we're quietly sitting down'' The Bible: You said you follow the Bible strictly, so do you also have the Ten Commandments to follow? Yes What makes a person a true person of faith? ''We believe you have to repent first then get baptised, so it's not when your a kid, it's when you get older and you know right from wrong. What's repent? ''Forgiveness of you sins. Not confession...for us we pray to God telling him we're sinners and that we need his help. We pray by ourselves whenever we want to. When do you get baptised? Whenever you feel ready Why do you get baptised? So God can forgive us for our sins Why don't you have a priest when you repent? ''The Bible doesn't say you need a priest to forgive your sins, only G Who is you God(s)? We believe in one God but in a trinity form of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit What guides your religious beliefs? The Bible guides our religious beliefs as well as tradition We follow what the Bible says, but we don't always follow the literal sense How do you celebrate in your religion? We celebrate our day of worship on Sundays where we hold mass at our church. The mass begins with readings from the Bible and then an homelia by the Father followed by prayer, singing and Communion. What makes a person a true person of faith? To become fully a part of your faith you must go through steps to help you prepare to be a person of strong faith, you get Baptised usually when your a baby, then you do Confession with a preist, your First Communion, and the you Confirmation. Who preaches the word of God? Our priest or Father preaches the word of God to us during mass How do priests become what they are? To become a preacher one must go to school for I believe 6 or 8 years. What are some controversial topics between your religion? Some practices which we are questiones about by other Christian faiths are if we worship Mary, why do we believe in Saints, and why do we believe in the Pope.
 * __Pentecostal__** Interview
 * __Catholics__**

Questions and Topics to discuss:
 * What are -?
 * Who do you believe in?
 * What guides your faith, or gives you the knowledge about how to live your life on a religious path?
 * What do you do to worship your God(s)?
 * What day(s) do you preseve to worship your God(s)?
 * What is considered the Holiest items?
 * What preparation if any must be taken to become fully a part of your religion? (Do you get Baptised, Confirmed, go through First Communion-These are just examples from my own faith, not necessarily what other religions do themselves)
 * Who preaches the word of your God(s), how do you receive their words?
 * What day(s) is considered the Holiest?
 * What do you believe happens after death?
 * What knowledge does the preacher figure have?
 * How long do preacher figures prepare?
 * How do they become what they are?
 * What are some controversial topics between religions?


 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/St_cecilia_guido_reni.jpg/200px-St_cecilia_guido_reni.jpg width="200" height="253"]] Saint Cecilia ,Patron Saint of Church music and musicians;
 * Saint Martin de porres, //Saint of the Broom//




 * Works Cited**

God delivered all these commandments You shall not have other gods besides me, (The Catholic Youth Bible, Exodus 20,3)
 * In Text Citations**

The Catholic Youth Bible Revised. Ed. Tony Tamderino, et al. United States of America. Print.Saint Mary's Press, Christian Brother's Publications, 2005.

World Book. U.S.A. NP.1981. Print. World Book-Childcraft International Inc.

Udo Nsehe, Mfornobong. The Reconciliation. Stories on Tolerance. NP.2002. Web, 2 April. 2012. []

About Jehova's Witnesses. Jehova's Witnesses. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, 2009. Web, 6 April. 2012. []

WATCHTOWER. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, 2009. Web. 6 April. 2012. []

NE. Catholic vs. Protestant. diffen. Web, 14 April. 2012. []

[|Video] N.E. Catholics vs. Prostestants. Diffen. Web. 14 Apr. 2012. [] Reni, Guido.Saint Cecilia. 1606.
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