In Religion
- There are 6:
- Points on a Star of David
- Orders of the Mishnah
- Symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder Plate
- Yahweh took 6 days to create the world in the Old Testament Book of Genesis; humankind was created on day 6. In the City of God, Augustine of Hippo suggested (book 11, chapter 30) that God's creation of the world took six days because 6 is a perfect number.
- The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan
- In Islam:
- There are Six articles of belief
- Fasting six days of Shawwal, together with the month of Ramadan, is equivalent to fasting the whole year
- In Hindu theology, a trasarenu is the combination of 6 celestial paramÄnus (atoms)
See also 666.
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“The great end of all religion ... is to purify our hearts—and conquer our passions—and in a word, to make us wiser and better men—better neighbours—better citizens—and better servants of GOD.”
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