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   Roger Johansson wrote:   
   > David V. wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>> All buddhists are not alike.   All christians are not   
   >>> alike.   
   >   
   >   
   >>> Hey, that's just how it is......   
   >   
   >   
   >> That's what I've been trying to tell you.   
   >   
   >   
   > Taoism was not created as a worshipping mystic religion, but   
   > it soon developed into that direction anyway.   
   >   
   > Lao-Tzu did not talk about any gods in his book Tao-te-ching.   
   > But the people had a need to worship something, because they   
   > had to live with very excited minds.   
   >   
   > The buddhism Buddha created was more a strategy for living in   
   > a religious world than a relion in itself. But some followers   
   > went the same way as the taoists who wanted a worshipping   
   > religion, and for the same reasons.   
   >   
   > Buddhism actually consists of two strategies for living in a   
   > religious world, the big wagon and the small wagon. As I   
   > remember it from studying buddhism a long time ago one version   
   > is a strategy for the individual and the other is a strategy   
   > for all of us together.   
      
   Many Buddhists still believe in gods, afterlives, and so on. The   
   whole religion cannot be secularized just because those that   
   studied Western oriented materials want to.   
      
      
   --   
   Dave   
      
   "Sacred cows make the best hamburger."  Mark Twain.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)