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• Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world.
• Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of humans.
• Through countless conflicts, conquests, missions abroad, and simple word of mouth, these religions spread around the globe and forever molded the huge geographic regions in their paths.
• Religion and globalism are entirely contrasting belief systems.
• Religion is concerned with the sacred, while globalism places value on material wealth.
• Religion follows divine commandments, while globalism abides by human-made laws.
• Religion assumes that there is the “possibility of communication between humans and the transcendent.”
• Religious people are less concerned with wealth and all that comes along with it, such as higher social status, a standard of living similar to that of the rest of the community, exposure to “culture,” and top-of-the-line education for the children.
• Religious people are ascetics, shunning anything material for complete simplicity, from their domain to the clothes they wear, to the food they eat, and even to the way they talk, using lots of parables and allegories that are supposedly the language of the divine.
• The main duty of a religious person is to live a virtuous, sin-less life such that when he/she is assured of a place in the other world known as heaven.
• Globalists are less worried about going to heaven or hell, their skills are more pedestrian as they aim to seal trade deals, raise the profits of private enterprises, improve government revenue collections, protect the elites from being excessively taxed by the state, and, naturally enrich themselves.
• Animatism - refers to the belief that all things (objects) animate and inanimate areendowed with an impersonal, supernatural life force hat influences people and events
• Animism - refers to the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, eitherintrinsically or because spirits inhabit them for a period. Unlike supernatural forces, animistspirits may be inherently good or evil.
• Theism - refers to the belief in the existence of God as the creator of the universe andregarded as sexless. The important attributes of God is his infinity, omnipotence (allpowerful), omniscience (all knowing) and omnipresence (he is everywhere).
• Ethical Religions - Ethics involves systematizing, defending, and recommending conceptsof right and wrong behavior. A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth livingor life that is simply satisfying, which is held by many philosophers to be more importantthan traditional moral conduct
• Christianity - Christianity is a religion that resonates with over 2 billion believers. The coreof the belief, despite the glaring differences between Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox,revolves around the 1st-century figure that is Jesus of Nazareth.
• Islam - Most active towards the end of the 6th century, the Prophet Muhammed iscelebrated by Muslims today for founding the religion of Islam. Roughly 1.8 billion followerspopulate the world, the majority of which are spread between northern Africa and WestAsia and Indonesia. The prophet desired to repair the Abrahamic religions, which hebelieved to be corrupted
• Hinduism - The origin of Hinduism, a religion with 1.1 billion followers, is difficult to pindown because it began as an amalgamation of different beliefs. Officially formed between2300 B.C. and 1500 B.C., the Indus Valley near modern-day. Pakistan is the location inwhich it first blossomed. Typically thought of as the 'religion with 330 million gods,’ themajority of Hindus worship one god alone, albeit they accept the existence of other gods.
• Buddhism- A prince who renounced his wealth to pursue wisdom, the Buddha is aneclectic figure from the 5th century B.C. who brought together many different beliefs inorder to develop a revolutionary philosophy on human identity and purpose. The goal isto achieve an enlightenment called Nirvana, through meditation, kindness, and hard work.Values revolve around the absence of an ‘essential self,’ impermanence, and the reality that life is suffering. Therefore, a primary aim for mankind is the elimination of suffering inall its forms.
• Shinto - Shinto beliefs have developed since the 6th century as a nature-focused seriesof scattered beliefs, that merged and then split with Buddhism as well as Confucianism.With 104 million followers and a focus on ancestry and nature, the belief can beunderstood through indulging in Japanese storytelling; wherein, the horror of 20th-centuryindustry threatens the magic of the world around us
• Sikhism - In 1469, the first Guru of Sikhism was born. Guru Nanak, a northeast Pakistan native, migrated to India and began to record and teach his revelations during journeys around the Islamic and Hindu world throughout the early 1500s. These revelations are few but substantial: Share with others, earn an honest living, meditate on God’s name and resist negative behaviors.
• Judaism - The original Abrahamic faith, Judaism has been practiced for over 3500 years. Archaeological evidence confirms the existence of two adjacent Jewish kingdoms between 900 and 700 B.C., and the religious texts assume a confederacy of 12 tribes united in faith before that. Each tribe, and subsequent kingdom, claim descent from Abraham
• Taoism - The Tao is the natural order of the universe and is not worshipped as a god, and it is believed that humans merge with the Tao upon death. By adhering to the lifestyle of De, the 12 million followers of Taoism trust that they will experience less suffering. Inaction and a passive effort to synchronize with this balance is the key differentiation from the more intentional Confucianism.
• Confucianism - Despite dancing around spirituality, leading many to consider Confucianism as a philosophy only, the religion establishes a theological understanding of the Universe, albeit an impersonal one. In it, the priority of humankind is to strive to 30 synchronize with the order of the universe to achieve oneness with heaven for the tranquility of community and self. This order is defined by “Tiān,” a non-speaking ‘God of Heaven’ which can be best translated as “the way things are
• Caodaism, also known as Cao Dai, was founded in Vietnam in 1926 as a mixture of several other religions, including Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
• Ethics and morals both relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct, but they are not the same.
• Ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, such as a code of conduct, a religion, or a philosophy.
• Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.
• Globalization and religion are a relationship that goes hand in hand, this kind of relationship has many positives and challenges.
• Religion starts with a culture of people and expands as the people migrate globally as a result ideas are passed on and traded.
• Religions then tend to share common ideas and these ideas in the modern age are passed on through technology nationwide.
• The biggest challenges with religion that is globalized is when it incorporates terrorist groups and makes their ideas spread faster globally making the threat widespread.
• The information revolution in general and the Internet in particular, are having enormous effects on the economic, social, and political lives.