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“A Shia Muslim who grew up in India, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was”
― 12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity's Most Influential Faiths
― 12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity's Most Influential Faiths
“pantheistic. Unlike ancient Greek beliefs, in which Zeus ruled from his palace on Olympus, divinity wasn’t something separate from the visible world. The material and the spiritual were one and the same. Thor was thunder. Thunder was Thor. These beliefs or practices weren’t”
― 12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity's Most Influential Faiths
― 12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity's Most Influential Faiths
“THE SOUL Along with the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks were among the first to distinguish the physical body from the soul. Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato argued that the psyche, or soul, was a person’s nonphysical essence. External behavior was a reflection of the soul’s characteristics. At the time of death, the soul departed from the body and journeyed to the afterlife, which meant the presence of a soul was what distinguished a living human from a corpse. Plato’s teaching on the immortality of the soul may have influenced early Christianity, which differed from Judaism in this belief.”
― 12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity's Most Influential Faiths
― 12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity's Most Influential Faiths
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