Three Monotheistic Religions

I think I've learned many different things from the readings and the power points that differ from what I initially thought about each of the three monotheistic religions we talked about, and some that remain in line with what I believed or had heard about each of these three religions. I would like to first talk about christianity, I learned a lot about christianity in these last few weeks, things that I,ve never heard of even though I am a christian my self, I am a devoted roman catholic and I myself had a lot of misconceptions about my own religion, just imagine how it went with the other two of the monotheistic religions we talked about in class. For example I had no clue that in the begining of christianity christian had been persecuted, I had no idea I guess I had the common misconseption that most christians have that christianity emerged as apopular religion that grew fast and strong without any oposition. I also had no idea that the pope and the roman emperor of the west had a conflict as to which one was the head of the church, I've always kind of had this idea that the pope had all the power since pope peter which was the first pope. Other than these two misconceptions I had about christianity I think everything else that we went over in class is pretty much in line with …show more content…
First of all I think everything I thought about islam differed from what I learned in class about this religion. To be honest like most Americans I thought islam was just a religion of radical psychopaths that worshiped alah, and I think this has everything to do with the image the media portrays to the public about this religion. I now know that islam is a wonderful religoon full of morals and values and that most of the false image i had about this religion was due to the image the media gives to this religion in our country do to