Well, I’d generally point to Wikipedia and say that’s as much as most people could ever need to know without a specific reason to go deeper.
Really, all it takes to understand what’s being talked about in the news is there, plus details.
For even less stringent uses, you could break it down to being a monotheistic religion that shares roots with judaism and christianty and has wide ranging rules that sometimes conflict with other religions and/or philosophies/moral codes.
Hell, most people, most of the time, all they need to know to get through life is that it’s a religion. Even that’s only necessary for casual conversations so you don’t have to interrupt and ask what that word means.
Well, I’d generally point to Wikipedia and say that’s as much as most people could ever need to know without a specific reason to go deeper.
Really, all it takes to understand what’s being talked about in the news is there, plus details.
For even less stringent uses, you could break it down to being a monotheistic religion that shares roots with judaism and christianty and has wide ranging rules that sometimes conflict with other religions and/or philosophies/moral codes.
Hell, most people, most of the time, all they need to know to get through life is that it’s a religion. Even that’s only necessary for casual conversations so you don’t have to interrupt and ask what that word means.