Differences In Eastern And Western Religion

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Eastern and Western religions are very different and very similar some of the religions share the same god. Hinduism and Christianity have something in common also something that's different. Christianity believe in god and hinduism believe in the Hindu. Evidence of that is that everyone mostly knows that christians believe in god and the hindus has the word hindu in it.First, something that is the same is they both believe in monotheism and that's where they only believe in one god. The two religions have some differences like, Christians have the trinity father, son, holy spirit also the Hindus has different forms of one 1 god. Next, is that some of the key beliefs of buddhism and judaism is that they need to be kind to others and also healing

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