Week 3 Discussion 1: Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Asian Civilizations

Well, this week, the topic was Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Asian Civilizations. Yay!!! Just kidding. For me it was quite interesting as I did not know much of Judaism. This is a great chance for us to be discussing on this topic. The topic was lead by my classmate Shahrukh. Let me give a brief review on this topic first. When I first knew that I will be reading on this, It was a little scary as I never knew about Judaism before.

So, We first speak on, very briefly, about the story of Moses.Then, we discuss further on Christianity. Then Islam. I was told that Jesus was a Jew. Is it true? Can anyone confirm with me on this? And later after that, we disussed on Edict of Milan. So this is just a brief introduction about everything that we discussed.

Topic ended.



Just kidding. Hahahahahahahaha.. We still have not touched on those religions in Asian Civilization. Let's first talk on the Jews. The Jews can be founded at Kochi, Japan, China and SEA, specifically, in Myanmar. I think the Jews are later drove out of the country later by the Japanese during the World War for the reason that they were Allied with German.There are not much Jew in the whole continent in Asia. I think there are only 45k people in the whole of Asia. Well, it was wired. As I knew, Jews are quite a big society as in there are a lot of Jews. Speaking of Jews, what are they? I have still not much of understanding on the religion. What is to do with Germans and Jews? No idea. Anyone kindly enough, please comment below.


That is about the Jews. So about Islam in Asia. They are widely founded in Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Turkey and some other more countries. For me, I knew how Islam was founded in Malaysia. It started around 15th century and the Kings of Malacca Empire. I think it's from the 4th King and it started since. He was the first King that was called Sultan where the Islamic people called their kings. How did they come to other parts of Asia? They started in the Middle East country where it is not called Asia right? This topic is getting more and more confusing by the moment.


So lastly, It was about Christian. How did they came into Asia? Last time we did learned that in our Malaysian History that when the Portugal people invaded the Malacca Empire, they came for 3 things, the gospel, gold and glory. So with the motto that they made, of course they came to spread out Christianity. They first came and they stopped at India. Only till the second time they came, they came to the Straits of Malacca. So is that where they stated to spread Christianity here? Are there not any signs of Christianity before that?


So time for the thoughts. Just be honest, I can't understand the leader of the group discussion. No offence. It was kind of hard for us to understand how he speaks. It was really quick. But, the better thing is that he did encourages us to keep on participating on the discussion as he will ask us some question and makes us to give out our own comments.

He did asked one question on the topic. Out of these 3 of the Religion, which one does endured the most? For my opinion, it was the Islam. Everyone seems to always been racist toward them in the past few years. No matter what they did, no matter what they say, It was those people of the stronger, who keeps on bullying them. This is civilization and from TITAS that I learned today, we discussed on the negative effects of civilization. When we discuss on this, the answer that the lecturer gave is that one big civilization always wants to stay on the top and it caused the people to go for war. Just to prove to people that they are the best and they are the leader of the world.

Not much to discuss. And so, I will be posting for the next discussion by today. The next discussion is on Logic of Thought in East and South Asian Civilizations. It is even more confusing than this topic.

Cheerios,
YiXin

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