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What is Belief System?
World Religious Traditions I REL/133
Lewis Hoye
December 10, 2008

What is Belief System?
There many different belief systems, some are religions and some not. All cultures develop a collection of beliefs and values that are used to meet its society's needs. A belief system is a way of perceive and interact in a society guided by a set of established moral rules. Our beliefs are an essential part of whom people are and how people behave. A culture with a strong belief system is shaped by it. The belief system delineates type of government, civil liberties, behaviors, laws, or women liberties. My belief system is Christian Roman Catholic.
Roman Catholic Religion
Catholicism is the oldest and largest Christian denomination in the world. Catholicism originated with Jesus Christ. All other Christian denominations branched from Catholicism at some point in history. The Catholic Church is the most widespread Christian denomination in the world. With more than one billion members, the Catholic Church is one of the most important religions on Earth. Every country on the world has members of the Catholic Church The Catholic Church was funded by Jesus Christ on earth when He said, "You are now Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church, and the powers of death and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." Peter was at this moment given the authority of a Pope, head of the church. Throughout the early years, between 33 and about 107 the name Catholic (universal in Greek) came into practice. Although, Nobody knows the exact date when was created the term "catholic Church." Historically, the first document where we can find the term "catholic Church" was in AD 107: “A letter that, in about AD 107, Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch wrote to Christians in Smyrna, is the earliest surviving witness to the use of the term "catholic Church" By it Saint Ignatius designated the Christian Church in its universal aspect.” (H....