In the ancient world wherever Christianity went to spread its gospel of Jehovah, Yeshua, Elohim, Yahweh, or Hashem it was critical to forcibly convert indigenous populations it encountered completely destroying indigenous beliefs systems with theocratic acts of terrorism into local populations. This is the history of ancient Christianity proselytizing itself.
Had Buddhism spread across the world instead in ancient history we would have a vastly different world than the one we have now as one of its main tenets is coexistence.
Unlike Abrahamic religions in Buddhism there is no theocratic belief structure pushing for one world government. Buddhism is a syncretic belief structure where virtually everywhere it exists it coexists with polytheism, paganism, or native indigenous belief systems.
Had Buddhism supplanted Christianity in past history we would probably see a lot of extinct ancient civilizations still existing to this day.
Buddha would be coexisting with the western gods of Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, and Lugh.
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Had Buddhism entered North, Central, and South America traveling the vast oceans in the 16th century instead of Christians the modern day cultural religious makeup would be very different.
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You use the term “Abrahamic” religions loosely and this is misleading, as it conveys that there is an “overall” theological commonality, which creates a problem of not being distinct from one another.
Granted there is a commonality as such, but the term “Abrahamic” religion conceals deeply opposed and conflicting differences.
Alan Berger, Professor of Judaic studies, wrote that “while Judaism birthed both Christianity and Islam, the three monotheistic faiths went their separate ways”.
The common Christian doctrines of Jesus’s Incarnation, the Trinity, and the resurrection, for example, are not accepted in either Judaism or Islam and there are also fundamental beliefs in both Islam and Judaism that are likewise denied by most of Christianity.
The Roman Papacy (which is a distinct institution), is the central driver of a New World Order and a One World Religion, using the term “inclusivity” as a means to bring other religions under its “control”, whilst regaining political influence over the world.
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Actually Budism was an extremely violent and intolerant religion with which entire religions and peoples were erradicated, to an extent to make the meanest Crusader or Holy Warrior blush.
The reason you idealize it is you don’t know anything about Asian history.
And maybe also certain sideways inclinations of yours if you catch my drift.
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@Mary-Poppins
List examples of Buddhist atrocities throughout history. Work your way up from ancient history to the current modern period, I am willing to wager I know more about Asian histories than you do.
What kind of salary did you have in mind for these lessons?
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@reason4emotion
All three religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share the goal of a theocratic world government police state after very violent apocalyptic end times. Each one has their different variations of it but they’re extremely similar hence the terminology of Abrahamism.
Likewise all three religions have repeatedly slaughtered non-believers violently converting people according to scripture passages and overall historical events.
Likewise Christianity and Islam basically share their purpose with Judaism. In Judaism within their end times Christians and Muslims slaughter each other to the brink of global annihilation before their moschiach arrives afterward.
@Mary-Poppins
As I suspect, you have nothing.
@Mary-Poppins
This is the part where you show your cards or cheaply fold.
Budaism has a similar, actually suspiciously similar attitude as Christianity and Islam: not violently converting people against their will would be a cruelty on their immortal souls.
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Actually, not too different from socialism, either.
Saving people into submission or erradication.
Proof perhaps that socialism is simply a particularly virulent branch of Puritan Protestantism.
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@Mary-Poppins
Buddhists do proselytize but the difference compared to Abrahamics is that the conversion is optional not violently mandatory where nothing is forced onto people.
Whether it is Hinduism, polytheism, Taoism, shamanism, or Shintoism Buddhism coexists with everybody in peace.
Only Abrahamics have a problem with spiritual and religious coexistence.
Yeah you have a a cold shower coming when you buy your first history book.
You always have your sideways graphics though, right?
Heh.
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@Mary-Poppins
Western capitalism and radical liberal individualism is on the verge of total collapse now, yet still you neoconservatives cling onto it as oblivion slowly surrounds us.
It’s very humorous to watch from a distance.
Well, it’s interesting, don’t you think?
You out here crying about forced conversion and religious genocide, extreme intolerance of divergence..
And flying the socialist flag. And the Budist one.
If God doesn’t have a sense of humour…
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@Mary-Poppins
You’ll find I am very big into global history, there was a time in my misplaced youth I wanted to be a historical anthropologist. This was even before I read my first philosophy book.
If you want to discuss 4700 years of global history with me I am willing to indulge you.
I have toilet paper already, danke.
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It’s interesting though, no? This intersection between your comrade secretary, your furer, your duce and your enlightened yogi? Christians and Muslimes are complete novices compared to that charming group.
But what’s even more interesting: worshipping that level of intolerance, hate, and mass murder, what is it that moves you to bemoan intolerance?
Is the origin of all of those intersecting schools the idea that the violated weak must, in self defense, absorb the masses and delete the abusers (all non-believers)?
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@Mary-Poppins
As a Buddhist I am all about compassion and the dignity of mankind, socialism politically is the political ideology of compassion caring about the public national welfare of community so it is only natural I align myself with that.
Marxism because I view global capitalism as the greatest threat to mankind.
Communism? 15 years straight of being homeless on the streets thrown out like an animal put me to that along with being poor and destitute for over forty years. We are all the sum of our personal life experiences in living.
