Everyone becomes religious, but they are only given the choice of three religions: Tao, Jain or Confucius.
Posted by Turbulent-Name-8349@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 9 comments
None of these three religions has a God.
"grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't change, and the wisdom to know the difference" is a summary of the Tao religion. The Yin-Yang symbol is part of the Tao religion, there is light within dark and dark within light, light follows dark and dark follows light.
You've heard the expression "wouldn't hurt a fly". That's the Jain religion. A moral stance of "do no harm". Environmentalism. A devout Jain is vegetarian, will not wear colours made from animals or plants. A Jain cannot be a commercial farmer, because commercial farming involves killing pests. The Hippie culture of "make love not war" is part of Jain.
Business ethics is Confucius. Make as much money as you can, but do so in a completely ethical way. Kindness to strangers, financially support parents in their old age, be good to staff, don't lie or cheat. Confucius is the only religion I know where kindness to shareholders is part of the religion.
hecaton_atlas@reddit
Tbh once you rule out the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Jewish etc. those that came from the same origin) the rest of the world religions are generally pretty chill tbh. Just philosophy and self-betterment type shit.
ddollarsign@reddit
The expansionist religions are the worst. Everyone must join, or else.
Highmassive@reddit
You either have no idea what you’re talking about or just have a bone to pick with the Abrahamic religions, maybe both
Highmassive@reddit
r/confidentialityincorrect
rollsyrollsy@reddit
That’s wildly simplistic.
Most religious people would consider their religion to be peaceful.
And of almost every religion I’ve studied (a lot), almost all of them have either justifications for violence or historical examples of violence at scale.
There are just a couple religions that have led a culture to be entirely and thoroughly pacifist. Sadly, examples like the Moriori people show that these groups struggle to coexist with other cultures, which inevitably take advantage of their pacifism.
ursois@reddit
Some of the neopapgan religions are pretty heavy on the white supremacy, and some practitioners of African religions butcher albinos to make magic talismans. Oh, and Hindus have been known to kill people over the rumor that they ate beef (as well as forcing a lot of people into a cycle of poverty due to the circumstances of their birth).
No one religion or set of religions has a lock on shitty behavior. There's enough blame to go around for everyone.
ErwinFurwinPurrwin@reddit
Buddhism doesn't have a god, either. Mythical entities exist in Daoism, Jainism and Buddhism, though. Just no Divine Creator. I'd throw Buddhism in there for good measure
I_might_be_weasel@reddit
No. I wanna worship the Devil.
yazeed105x@reddit
I wouldn't consider these religion, more like schools of philosophy