world religions vocabs
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- Monotheism
- one God, with 1 personality (e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
- Credo
- A statement of what you belief
- Monoism
- 1 god, impersonal (all reality is of 1 character; all is 1) (e.g. Hinduism, Buddhism)
- Orthodoxy
- A set of accepted beliefs or a set of standard belief
- Empiricism
- the view that (a) knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and (b) science flourishes through observation and experiment.
- Dogmatic
- describing a (dogma) person(e.g. they won't change their mind); describing an action
- Sacred
- related to religious things
- Humanist
- person (see humanism)
- Humanism
- a system of thought that focuses on the nature, ideals, and achievments of human beings, rather than on the devine
- Theology
- the study of God, god(s)
- Dogma
- a belief that you won't change
- Ethics
- How to decide what is right or wrong
- Religion
- specific set of fundamental beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a group.
- Secular
- worldly; not related to religious things