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Sectarian similarities across religious divdes 2017-09-14 02:09:21 Post No. 3381286
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Sectarian similarities across religious divdes
Anonymous
2017-09-14 02:09:21
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Let's take the example of Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. They can be sliced into three categories based on similarity of doctrinal "flavor," so to speak. I have called them Categories A, B, and C. (This designation has nothing to do with "superior"/"inferior" or historical period.)
So...
Category A: Theravada Buddhism, Protestant/Fundamentalist Christianity, Sunni Islam (minimalist, fundamentalist, embrace of iconoclastic "purity")
Category B: Mahayana Buddhism, Catholic Christianity, Shiite Islam (maximalist, tradition-oriented rather than fundamentalist, embrace of complexity)
Category C: Vajrayana Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Ismaili Islam (esoteric/mystical emphasis, ornate aesthetics, embrace of the arcane)
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It's almost as if religions were created by humans and their various social personalities.
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>>3381302
True, but not very interesting.
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>>3381286
Its almost like they're all related somehow
And chances are, they are influenced by one another.
Buddhism came first and had missionaries across Greek/Roman countries like Egypt/Syria/Iran/Iraq/etc.
Christianity came later and arose out of those area.
Islam arose in the same area.
WEW.
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>>3381320
Are you saying protestantism was somehow inspired by theravada buddhism?
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>>3381327
Buddhism has no inspiration for Protestantism.
The religion of Christianity does and its structure and practices.
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>>3381360
Its got a lot to do with it. One of the main reason for reformation is because the commoners were excluded. Why were they excluded? Because the higher religious class requires dedication/devotion/time/learning/celibacy/etc. Aka live in monastery, devote your entire life to God, live a ascetic life, etc.
The whole protestant reformation was a backlash against the system adopted by the Christianity (Catholics), from the Buddhists (monastic life, ascetic life, religious class, esoteric rituals, etc)
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>>3381391
Still entirely beside the point
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>>3381397
Eh? Seems like perfectly on point.
The base structures of Christianity/Esoteric was imported from Buddhism. The Reformation happened as a thing against this.
You could even say the same structure applies to Hinduism too. Hindus evolved with Buddhism. They have the base "fundamental", then there's more universal appraoch, and finally the esoteric approach
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>>3381442
>The base structures of Christianity/Esoteric was imported from Buddhism.
There is absolutely no evidence for that claim.
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>>3381835
There are evidence, circumstantial evidence. Just not direct evidence.
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