It's the most significant holiday for the world's largest religion.

对于世界上最大的宗教而言，复活节是最重要的节日。

And yet this is a common practice in almost every world religion today.

然而这却是当今世界 大多数宗教的常例。

Several world religions believe in a mythical mountain that's equivalent to the Garden of Eden.

许多世界宗教都提过一座神山，就像旧约的伊甸园。

On World Religion Day, it is a good idea to understand how similar the great world religions are in their beliefs.

在这一天里，人们能够更好的明白各个宗教之间的相似之处。

That's a lot for a nation of 330 million people 50 states, some 400 spoken languages and all of the world's major religions.

对于一个拥有3。3亿人口、50个州、大约400种语言和世界上所有主要宗教的国家来说，这是一个很大的数字。

It's the largest denomination of the world's largest religion, Christianity.

它是世界上最大的宗教基督教的最大教派。

Pretty much all the world religions  have some kind of repentance.

世界上几乎所有宗教都有某种忏悔。

Longing is also the beating heart, of course, of most of the world's religions.

当然，渴望也是世界上大多数宗教的核心。

I hardly need to describe the figure any further, because the seated Buddha is one of the most familiar and most enduring images in world religion.

无须过多描述，因为坐佛是世界宗教史上最著名，历史也最悠久的造型之一。

Like they were Zoroastrian, which has a claim to being the world’s first monotheistic religion.

就像他们是琐罗亚斯德教一样，自称是世界上第一个一神论宗教。

Notwithstanding differences, there are clear similarities in all of the world’s religions.

【notwithstanding】世界上的宗教尽管各不相同，但都有明显的相似之处。

A recent " Economist" article said that the face of the future of the world's most popular religion is African.

《经济学人》最近的一篇文章说，未来世界上最受欢迎的宗教的面孔是非洲人。

So as anyone who has ever practices yoga knows, Hinduism is the most flexible of all the world religions, which is part of the reason it’s often described as polytheistic.

因此，任何练过瑜伽的人都知道，印度教是世界上所有宗教中最灵活的， 这也是它经常被描述为多神教的部分原因。

Legend has it that in the late tenth century, the pagan Russian prince Vladimir the Great sent envoys across the world to discover and bring back all of the major world religions for the Russians to choose from.

有传言说在 10 世纪后期，无宗教信仰的俄罗斯王子弗拉基米尔大帝派遣使者走遍世界各地，去发现并带回世界上所有主要的宗教，供俄罗斯人选择信奉哪个宗教。

You know, the reality of the world is that the world's religions have a wide variety of views on abortion, and many support them in a whole range of different circumstances.

你知道，世界的现实是世界上的宗教对堕胎有各种各样的看法，许多人在各种不同的情况下都支持它们。

The decision to open up their religion to non-Jews, people who weren’t part of the covenant, is the central reason that Christianity could become a world religion instead of just a sect of Judaism.

决定向非犹太人开放他们的宗教，这些人不是圣约的一部分，这是基督教可以成为世界宗教而不仅仅是犹太教的一个教派的主要原因。