Re: religion in America

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Well, Jim,

Actually, I wasn't trying to idealize the east, because, yes, even sects 
withing the same religions have had horrible encounters.  In 
Christianity, we need look no farther than Ireland for a western 
example.  However, what I was saying was that we are in a seriously 
iconoclastic age as far as Christianity is concerned, and we wouldn't 
see nearly the postings attacking Salinger's religious slant in a 
particular book if he were comparing two eastern religions.  Not me 
personally, but we as a culture tend to idealize Eastern philosophies 
and currently bash Christianity.
In other words, the posting "Doesn't it bother you, the Christian 
overtones..." would never have been posted if it were "Doesn't it bother 
you, the Zen overtones in..."  Y'know what I mean?

Namaste,
Thor

<<How many postings do you think we'd be seeing if he were drawing 
Zoroastrian/Tibettan Buddhist parallel lines?
Just a thought....>>

That was a good post, Thor.

But my answer would be, Just as many.  Let's not idealize the east.  

The East have had their religious wars too.

<<Isn't it possible to find wisdom and love and beuaty and meaning from 
somewhere other than Jesus, Buddha, etc.?

Dave>>

And the answer to this question would be, No :)  It isn't.  Our 
religious
traditions taught us what love, wisdom, beauty and meaning Is long 
before
we distilled them into philosophies.

If you dropped the etc. from your sentence, you'd get a lot more people
to agree with you, though.

Jim



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