03 Mar 2009
Religion is a very important aspect of our life. All the religions are good and unique. I think that religion is very personal choice and nobody has the right to make pressure in order to influence it. The religious freedom is guaranteed by the Constitutional law and can’t be limited or neglected. The main aim of the Church is to unite people, to bring peace to the earth. It’s very painful for me that sometimes exactly religion is the reason of wars and conflicts. I have a strong determination that religion mustn’t judge the representatives of other confessions. Islam and Christianity are among the world’s major religions and there are a lot of things, which make them alike, but there are a lot of things, which are quite different. I will compare one of the main Islamic celebrations – Ramadan and Christian Lent. They both have common idea, which unites them. Both, Ramadan and Lent include fasting. Fasting is an old practice, present in almost all world religions. In both, Islam and Christianity fasting has a religious meaning. It aims to bring up self-control, purifying of body and mind and making a sacrifice to God. The wording can differ, but the sense is the same. In early Christianity there were several periods of fasting during the year.
