Poverty Is One Of The Three Major Religions

The Great Question. Most professionals agree that all religions tie into each other like a complex web of a spider. Like most webs, this one ties into a central idea and branches out with similar strands. Keeping this in mind it is easy to see how similar a religion is to another then how it is different. In order to do so Christianity, Islam, and Judaism the three major religions will be compared. They will be examined through the basic means of comparison in which will contain; poverty, peaceful promotions, and their monotheistic gods. Poverty is one of the most important parts of the web. Poverty has always been in consideration when it comes to our major religions. They all show and practice good ways of helping the poor, and the same central idea of helping those …show more content…
Examples of this can be shown through the Bible’s teachings, such as “Rob not the poor, because he is poor” (bible.com, 2014, proverbs 22:22). This quote tells us that we should be kind to the poor because they are poor and should not have any other reason for it. This quote also shows us that the Bible and its religion, Christianity, focuses on the theory of helping the poor in many places throughout their lives and scriptures. Christianity has a lot to do with helping the poor which can help us know that it fits into the category of ‘helping the poor’. In the religion of Islam, poverty can also be shown by its many verses in its holy book, the Quran. Helping the poor is also found in their actions or what is called the five pillars, one pillar is labeled under ‘charity’. The words of this can also be found in the Quran as it says “do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them” this shows that we watch over the poor by providing with charity and warn not to fear poverty because it can corrupt. Islam practices, helping the poor in many ways just like Christianity and now