COMPARISONS OF WESTERN RELIGIONS: Focusing on Christianity and Islam

About half of the people of the world practice Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. They are found on every continent, but tend to be concentrated in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Western Asia and North Africa. Christianity and Islam are growing influences in sub-Saharan Africa, often replacing indigenous faiths.
There is one point in the world where you can see the division between western and eastern faiths: the partition that separates Pakistan from India. The two nations were considered one until 1948 when both gained independence from Great Britain. As Pakistan became a Muslim homeland and India a Hindu nation; many Muslim and Hindu families who had lived together for hundreds of years were forced to leave their homes. Religious minorities still exist in both nations, but the line separating India and Pakistan is a clear division between western and eastern thought.
There are many differences in beliefs throughout the Western Religions. In comparing the differen...