religion and Paul

In today’s human geo class we talked about more ethnic heritage. We talked about how in the countries of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa, and how there are two dominant ethnic groups; the Tutsis and the Hutus. The Hutus were always more dominant over the Tutsis and persecuted them, but in some areas that is different and the Tutsis are dominant and they are the ones who persecute the Hutus.  Next we talked about how the U.S. had merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries with no problem. Korea and Japan mostly just go by one ethnic group because they want to retain their ethnicity. After that we started talking about religion and how there are five major religions in the world today and they are: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We went over our homework that discussed these five religions, but then we got to talking about how Christianity got started. Christianity used to be a criminal offence and people were persecuted for it. There was a man named Saul and he loved persecuting the Christians because he was very good at it, but one day while on his way to Damascus there was a beam of light that blinded him and he heard God’s voice telling him not to persecute the Christians anymore. After his encounter with God, Saul changed his ways; he was from then on known as Paul and he went out to all these different places and preached to all these people. If people wrote him letters, he would write back to them, those places built churches and from then on they fully understood God. When Jesus was alive he was not as widely famous as people thought, Jesus mainly preached in his own homeland and didn’t get to travel a lot. Towards the end of class we talked about Jesus knowing that he was starting a religion or if it was unintended. A few of us thought that it was unintentional and that Jesus was just trying to set us on the right path.