Religion in America

Unfortunately my blog-writing crashed after one hour writing. I will repeat my main points that i I wrote down.

On our last days we visited the most widespread religous groups here in the Cincinnati area. We tried to get a better insight of the prejudices in America, which are caused by mistreatment of children by Catholic priests and sects like Scientology.

On Sunday we went at 10 o'clock to the Crossroads Community Church. It is really modern church of Baptists. When you come in that house, you feel like to be in a concert hall. In the entrance hall you can get for example coffee free of charge and there is wifi available. No crosses can be found in the entrance. During the god service we sat comfortably with at least 4000 spectators. The seats had even cup holders. The stage in front of us was equipped with lots of instruments. These instruments were played by a really good band, which awoke goose bumps in me. Here you can see that good music influences people to pay more attention to parallel things. People were stunned by a wide variety of stimuli in form of pictures and quotations from the bible. Feelings like this, humans normally sense at a concert. In between the music in speeches experienced Baptists advertised engagement and gave a review what was done so far. At the end a new converted Baptist told his story how Crossroads affected his life and led him to participate in a social project in India. All speaking was nicely accompanied by jokes.

Today we went to the mosque next to Cincinnati. Inside it isn't so well furnished in contrast to the "concert hall". During god services men sit cloth together on carpet, while women stand behind on floor up. It is like this in order to avoid misfeelings of the women. They live there religion more active in praying together.

In common both religions unite people even in the spare time. In the mosque you can play basketball and badminton, although the islamic education in the room next to the mosque stands in the spotlight. The Christians also meet during the week in workgroups to discuss interesting topics.

The Islamic religion claims total commitment. Even if you are not in the mosque you show your religion publicly. Your daily life is almost completely commited and ruled by the guidelines which are written in the coran, e.g. praying and clothing. On the other hand, the Christians are more liberal for any kind of engagement. Once a week they normally met. If you like to, there is participance possible in seperate groups, which are dedicated to different issues, for example a father-group. In addition to this you can feel free to engage in a lot of social projects in and outside the US.

Islamic followers need a inner strength for following the guidelines in the Coran. If they don't
do so say have to have fear harsh punishments.

In my point of view, we left out another important religous group "Afro American Baptists". The make out a high percentage of inhabitants all over the US and will likely have a lot of members.