Inside the monks worked on such duties as copying the manuscripts. .
In Christianity, they have men that devote themselves to religion and spend their life studying and following the teachings of Jesus Christ. In the Christianity religion they are not called monks, they are called apostles which is a form of monasticism. Christians do not believe in keeping themselves away from the world, they want to go into the world, so they can tell everyone they see about God and how he sent his son down from heaven to die for our sons, and forgive us. They mostly talked about what Jesus said to do. The religion of Christianity does not believe in the rebirth, but to die and go to Heaven or Hell. The apostles believe that is one God, who created the universe and all that is in it. They all believe that God is active in history, guiding and teaching his people, to live and someday be with him in heaven. Also in Christianity the distinction between clergy and monks is sharply defined. Many monks are clergymen. Roman Catholicism for example, has two types of clergy, regular and secular. The regular, are those who follow a rule, they are members of the monastic order. The secular are priests that belong to no order. Monastic orders have members called brothers who are not priests, and do not perform such priestly functions, such as conducting mass. They share the life and use discipline of the .
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order and serve in such capacities as teaching and farming. A more appropriate word for early Christian monasticism, as well as for that practiced by eastern religions is asceticism.
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To say that only men played a role of a monastery, it would be insane. Women played a small but very significant roll of monasteries. In all monastic traditions, as in most religions generally, women have always occupied a status inferior to men. Roman Catholicism has consistently refused to grant equal status to nuns because they cannot be ordained as priests.