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Title: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Camel Jockey on December 29, 2006, 01:38:55 PM
This is true.. Eastern faiths put more emphasis on being a good human being and treating others with respect. While stuff like Islam and Christianity are more about submission to super natural figures.

What are your opinions?
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Parker on December 29, 2006, 04:18:50 PM
I thought, Islam, Christianity, and Judiasm, were Eastern Religions, because they were founded in ...THE MIDDLE EAST. It is just that the majority of Christians and Jews today are of European descent.
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Camel Jockey on December 29, 2006, 04:55:07 PM
I thought, Islam, Christianity, and Judiasm, were Eastern Religions, because they were founded in ...THE MIDDLE EAST. It is just that the majority of Christians and Jews today are of European descent.

Well I wouldn't call them eastern because Europeans have distorted the original faiths and tweaked them. What I meant by eastern religions is hinduism, buddhism, janism, traditional chinese religion.
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Parker on December 30, 2006, 04:23:01 AM
Well I wouldn't call them eastern because Europeans have distorted the original faiths and tweaked them. What I meant by eastern religions is hinduism, buddhism, janism, traditional chinese religion.

If more Europeans got involved with that, and then became the majority, would they still be called "Eastern religions", or religions "based on Eastern Philosophies"
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Camel Jockey on December 31, 2006, 05:00:26 PM
If more Europeans got involved with that, and then became the majority, would they still be called "Eastern religions", or religions "based on Eastern Philosophies"

I'm not debating the above. What I am debating here is that are religions like Hinduism better than religions like Christianity and Islam?
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Dos Equis on December 31, 2006, 06:07:22 PM
I'm not debating the above. What I am debating here is that are religions like Hinduism better than religions like Christianity and Islam?

Not at all. 
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Parker on January 07, 2007, 08:11:50 AM
Not at all. 

Well, how many Bhuddists do you hear about killing and lobbing bombs at people? Or saying that someone is going to hell if you don't believe what they believe
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: DK II on January 07, 2007, 08:55:04 AM
Not at all. 

haha, yes. That's the arrogant thoughts of monotheistic salvation religions.

Everything else is wrong.  ::) ::)
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: DK II on January 07, 2007, 08:56:05 AM
Well, how many Bhuddists do you hear about killing and lobbing bombs at people? Or saying that someone is going to hell if you don't believe what they believe

exactly.
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Dos Equis on January 12, 2007, 11:25:36 PM
Well, how many Bhuddists do you hear about killing and lobbing bombs at people? Or saying that someone is going to hell if you don't believe what they believe

I don't know, but what does that have to do with whether Buddhism is a "better" religion than Christianity?  You're talking about the conduct of individuals, not the differences in teachings.  That's the real issue IMO. 
Title: Re: Eastern religions > Abrahamic religions
Post by: Parker on January 13, 2007, 07:23:06 PM
I don't know, but what does that have to do with whether Buddhism is a "better" religion than Christianity?  You're talking about the conduct of individuals, not the differences in teachings.  That's the real issue IMO. 

would the conduct of the individuals represent how strictly they follow the teachings of the respected religion.