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dealing with it wrote:I find it curious that someone can easily be a Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian all at the same time. The religions support one another.
In contrast, one can only really subscribe to a single Abramic religion, and sometimes even only a single sect of that religion, without coming into conflict. Jews, Christians, and Muslims disagree fundamentally and have no method for selecting among the three.
It seems that Eastern religions are thus more likely to contain a shred of integrity. They can all be true, unlike Western religions where they cannot.
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Sepokku wrote:This isn't true actually. One can be Mormon and Catholic and Christian without ever running into contradictions. Mormonism builds on Christianity/Catholicism, so it is inherently compatible. The only difference between catholicism and Christianity is your view on the Church. So it is possible to be all three without ever having conflicting beliefs. Moreover, even among the religions that differ extremely (Islam/Judaism/catholicism), they all contain the same core story. For example, the devil is always a spirit of fire (Seraph/djinn/shaitan) and he always refuses to kneel before Adam (because adam is made of dirt).
Conversely one CANNOT be both Buddhist and Taoist, or any of the Eastern religions. Buddhism says suffering is inherent to life. Taoism says suffering isn't. Buddhism believes that every human being is a God that will one day become Buddha. Taoism thinks that is silly. No human can become Tao, that's the whole point of the religion. There are HUGE differences in eastern religion that makes them not mesh well.
You bring up a good point, but it is in support of Abrahamic religion, not vice versa.
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