![]() ![]() ![]() You can, in fact, also be very benign or even benevolent! You can be very serious about your faith, and so be considered very religious (‘religious’ being a sociological descriptor), without being crazy or violent. Not every religious person is a fundamentalist, and not every fundamentalist is a terrorist. My counter argument is that Mother Theresa was a fundamentalist also. Pretty soon you suffer the same branding as the crazies who commit terrorist acts. Wouldn’t want to be put in the same category as them! I get that these days it is impopular to be identified as a religion.Why? Because there is no definition of religion possible which does not apply to Buddhism perfectly. Open any book on world religion, and you will find Buddhism listed as one of the major world religions.Lots of people I met swear that Buddhism is not a religion, but rather a way of life. We had some interesting debate on that in the group. You may not want to repeat that to loudly. Add to that the strong animistic culture of Nepal, and you get an interesting blend, where it soon becomes impossible to determine who believes what - and why.īy the way, I started this paragraph by calling Buddhism a religion. ![]() In fact, it would seem that the absence of of a central teaching person in the life of an individual means that everyone is kind of free to worship whatever God they want, in whatever way they want. The monotheistic religions emphasize ’the one way’, Buddhism and Hinduism allow for many ways. In Islam you listen to the Imam in christianity to the pastor or priest, and in Judaism you listen to the rabbi - but in Buddhism and Islam there is not one main teaching event in the week. ![]() But another major difference that I observed is that there is no main teaching event.
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