{"id":19513,"date":"2026-07-10T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=19513"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:25:13","slug":"19513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=19513","title":{"rendered":"World Religions (Comparison)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Name<\/th>\n<th>Central Idea<\/th>\n<th>Sacred Text(s)<\/th>\n<th>Afterlife<\/th>\n<th>Core Teachings<\/th>\n<th>Origin<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Judaism<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>God of Abraham<\/td>\n<td>Tanakh<\/td>\n<td>Olam HaBa<\/td>\n<td>Covenant, Mitzvot<\/td>\n<td>Israel (Abraham, Moses)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Christianity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>God of Abraham (Trinity)<\/td>\n<td>Bible<\/td>\n<td>Heaven or Hell<\/td>\n<td>Salvation, Love<\/td>\n<td>Israel (Jesus)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Islam<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>God of Abraham<\/td>\n<td>Qur&#8217;an<\/td>\n<td>Paradise or Hell<\/td>\n<td>Five Pillars<\/td>\n<td>Arabia (Muhammad)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Hinduism<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Many gods, all Brahman<\/td>\n<td>Vedas, Bhagavad Gita<\/td>\n<td>Samsara<sup>1<\/sup> until reaching Moksha<\/td>\n<td>Karma, Dharma<\/td>\n<td>India (No single founder)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Buddhism<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Nirvana (Enlightenment)<\/td>\n<td>Tripitaka<\/td>\n<td>Samsara<sup>1<\/sup> until reaching Nirvana<\/td>\n<td>Four Noble Truths<\/td>\n<td>India (Buddha)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Daoism<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dao (The way)<\/td>\n<td>Dao De Jing<\/td>\n<td>Life comes from Dao, and returns to Dao<\/td>\n<td>Harmony, Wu Wei<\/td>\n<td>China (Laozi<sup>2<\/sup>, Zhuangzi)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Confucianism<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Moral virtue<\/td>\n<td>Analects<\/td>\n<td>Ancestor veneration<\/td>\n<td>Morality, Harmony<\/td>\n<td>China (Confucius)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> In Hinduism the soul gets transferred during the rebirth, but in Buddhism not.<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> Laozi translates to &#8220;Old Teacher&#8221;. It&#8217;s uncertain if he was a historical figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Central Idea Sacred Text(s) Afterlife Core Teachings Origin Judaism God of Abraham Tanakh Olam HaBa Covenant, Mitzvot Israel (Abraham,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19513"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19567,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513\/revisions\/19567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}