Who is Muhammad?

The Prophet Muhammad?

Where was he born?
How was he raised?
What was he like?

Who Is Muhammad (Pbuh)

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Islam in a few words!

What is Islam?

Is it a religion of blood?
Do you associate it with terror?
Do you think it's a weird religion?
Do you think Muslims revere a different kind of God?
Do you think that Muslims don't believe in Jesus or Moses?
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What Is Islam?

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Artemis

Virgin goddess

Virgin goddess of the hearth, home and cooking. She is a daughter of Rhea and Cronus and sister of Zeus. She was depicted as a modestly veiled woman, whose symbols are the hearth and kettle. In some accounts, she gave up her seat as one of the Twelve Olympians to tend to the sacred flame on Mount Olympus for Dionysus.

In mythology

Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Some scholars believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, was originally pre-Greek. In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women. She was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia (the Cretan goddess adopted into ancient Greek religion and myth as the goddess of childbirth and midwifery) in aiding childbirth.
Artemis later became identified with Selene, a Titaness who was a Greek moon goddess, sometimes depicted with a crescent moon above her head. She was also identified with the Roman goddess Diana, with the Etruscan goddess Artume, and with the Greek or Carian goddess Hecate

Poseidon

Earth Shaker and Storm Bringer

God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, storms, earthquakes, and horses; known as the "Earth Shaker" or "Storm Bringer". He is a son of Cronus and Rhea and brother to Zeus and Hades. In classical artwork, he was depicted as a mature man of sturdy build with a dark beard, and holding a trident. The horse and the dolphin are sacred to him.

Worship

In his benign aspect, Poseidon was seen as creating new islands and offering calm seas. When offended or ignored, he supposedly struck the ground with his trident and caused chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings and shipwrecks. Sailors prayed to Poseidon for a safe voyage, sometimes drowning horses as a sacrifice; in this way, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climacteric battle of Issus, and resorted to prayers, "invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves."

Zeus the king of gods

The king of gods

Zeus is the son of Cronus and Rhea. He is considered the king of the gods and the ruler of Mount Olympus. He overthrew Cronus, his father. The latter swallowed all his children as soon as they were born. But Rhea fled to an island, Crete, where she gave birth to Zeus. In Greek mythology Zeus was raised by a gaot named amalthea. With the help of the Olympians Zeus Overthrew his father and became the god of the sky, weather, thunder, law, order, and fate.

Erotic Escapades

In most traditions he was married to Hera. According to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

Depiction

His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists either as:

• standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, 
• or seated in majesty.

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The Need for Faith

The atheist view

Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of God or gods. Atheists argue that there is no need for religion. For example, Marxists stand on the basis of philosophical materialism, which rules out the existence of any supernatural entity, or anything outside or "above" nature. There is, in fact, no need for any such explanation for life and the universe. Nature furnishes its own explanations and it furnishes them in great abundance.

Likewise Freud tried to attack the roots of organized religions. Freud contends:

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." --Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis,1933.

"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." --Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, 1927

Need for faith

It is, however, worth noting that even these ideologies developed into new  belief systems themselves. For instance when communism was exported to other countries, it was preached with the same commitment and fervor that characterizes preaching and propagation of religion.

This need for a belief system is a deep rooted one in human nature. We are born with an innate need for faith. For what is the opposite of faith but despair and hopelessness. Faith can stem from different things including ideologies and religion.
Believers think that even an atheist has faith, no matter how much he or she might deny it. Human beings need to have faith. Mankind is not as self-sufficient as many would like to believe..We are extremely dependent on many things despite our denials.

State of Faith in the World of Today

Faith

Faith is a potent power in the world of today in spite of all the modernization that has occured world wide. The need of faith in the lives of human beings is still strong and religious vitality across the globe shows no signs of diminishing in the near future.

Globalization and faiths

This video examines the demographically extensive reach of faiths and the publicly intensive expression of these faiths around the world in a time of gloablization.