Religions have made many people commit acts of violence, ie the Crusades, ie pedo priests, ie Georgia Guidestones, ie all religious wars. Weak minds seek power and definition from exterior sources. Religions, clubs and gangs share many qualities; all have a set of rules and codes, the commitment to defend each other up to and including war, and dues of some kind. The subversion of the individual, as in a huge Milgram experiment; a 'what are you willing to do for the team' provocation. Never.
As a human belief system instituted in the actually existing power structure that consists of no angels only humans religion too is man made, nothing Holy. There is also the fact that unique among human religions was created Christian religion that right away after Constantine integrated itself into the Roman Empire under Theodosius. He is prototype for the Christian crusading in a way by killing all who refused the Cross. However the content of this faith was not crusading and conquering. The idea of God-Manhood dignified man and woman. Unique in antiquity.
Different cultures. My private thought is Hellenism was saved by Christianity despite the social distortions. Other benefits came as well from not being Muslim or under the Mongol yoke.
Your last three words are not in any sense true. And Constantine's famous sword provided the template for crusading and conquering - by their blood-soaked actions you will surely know them.
The systematic murder of those who "refused the Cross" - how monstrously grotesque!
Christian-ism does not take the totality of the human body-mind-complex into account and is (perhaps) incapable of doing so.
At their best both Buddhism and Hinduism take the totality of the human body-mind-complex into account. They are both founded on a profound understanding of the primacy of Consciousness with a capital C. The word Consciousness with either a lower case or (especially) a capital C is seldom, if ever mentioned or considered in any of the usual Christian speculative philosophy The Wisdom found in the ancient Upanishads and the Rig-Veda is far superior to anything to be found in Christian philosophy. So too with the original teaching of the Buddha - meaning the Awakened One.
Hinduism (in particular) accounts for the centrality of the subtle energetics of the spinal line, and the two halves of the nervous system - the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions (ida and pingala) which at their best should be in a state of sympathetic resonant harmony. By contrast Christianity is based on a fight-to-the-death-warfare between these two (seeming ) halves dramatized onto the world stage as the war of "spirit" vs "flesh".
Nor does Christianity even begin to take into account the Chakra system and the subtle energetics associated with each chakra. Especially those at the heart chakra and above.
Christianity was the glue of the West. Christianity failed by by not being Christian. Ashoka was a kind of Constantine. According to Buddhist sources, Ashoka was a vicious and ruthless ruler who changed his heart after the battle of Kalinga, a vicious war. After the conflict, he converted to Buddhism and devoted his life to spreading the teachings of this religion. Berdyaev as an Orthodox Christian held Christianity was the reason mankind developed positive science and technique. For Berdyaev the human person is illuminated by Christ and participates in the Divine through God-Manhood.
Religions have made many people commit acts of violence, ie the Crusades, ie pedo priests, ie Georgia Guidestones, ie all religious wars. Weak minds seek power and definition from exterior sources. Religions, clubs and gangs share many qualities; all have a set of rules and codes, the commitment to defend each other up to and including war, and dues of some kind. The subversion of the individual, as in a huge Milgram experiment; a 'what are you willing to do for the team' provocation. Never.
As a human belief system instituted in the actually existing power structure that consists of no angels only humans religion too is man made, nothing Holy. There is also the fact that unique among human religions was created Christian religion that right away after Constantine integrated itself into the Roman Empire under Theodosius. He is prototype for the Christian crusading in a way by killing all who refused the Cross. However the content of this faith was not crusading and conquering. The idea of God-Manhood dignified man and woman. Unique in antiquity.
What about the Chinese and to a certain extend the Japanese & Koreans?
And the Americans before Columbus?
Different cultures. My private thought is Hellenism was saved by Christianity despite the social distortions. Other benefits came as well from not being Muslim or under the Mongol yoke.
Your last three words are not in any sense true. And Constantine's famous sword provided the template for crusading and conquering - by their blood-soaked actions you will surely know them.
The systematic murder of those who "refused the Cross" - how monstrously grotesque!
Christian-ism does not take the totality of the human body-mind-complex into account and is (perhaps) incapable of doing so.
At their best both Buddhism and Hinduism take the totality of the human body-mind-complex into account. They are both founded on a profound understanding of the primacy of Consciousness with a capital C. The word Consciousness with either a lower case or (especially) a capital C is seldom, if ever mentioned or considered in any of the usual Christian speculative philosophy The Wisdom found in the ancient Upanishads and the Rig-Veda is far superior to anything to be found in Christian philosophy. So too with the original teaching of the Buddha - meaning the Awakened One.
Hinduism (in particular) accounts for the centrality of the subtle energetics of the spinal line, and the two halves of the nervous system - the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions (ida and pingala) which at their best should be in a state of sympathetic resonant harmony. By contrast Christianity is based on a fight-to-the-death-warfare between these two (seeming ) halves dramatized onto the world stage as the war of "spirit" vs "flesh".
Nor does Christianity even begin to take into account the Chakra system and the subtle energetics associated with each chakra. Especially those at the heart chakra and above.
Christianity was the glue of the West. Christianity failed by by not being Christian. Ashoka was a kind of Constantine. According to Buddhist sources, Ashoka was a vicious and ruthless ruler who changed his heart after the battle of Kalinga, a vicious war. After the conflict, he converted to Buddhism and devoted his life to spreading the teachings of this religion. Berdyaev as an Orthodox Christian held Christianity was the reason mankind developed positive science and technique. For Berdyaev the human person is illuminated by Christ and participates in the Divine through God-Manhood.