Is Confucianism a Religion?

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  @ReligionForBreakfast · 5 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• EL

  @elfarlaur · 5 years ago

  I always thought of Confucianism as a philosophy within indigenous Chinese religious traditions, similar to Stoicism or Neoplatonism in the Mediterranean.

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  @LiquorWithJazz · 5 years ago

  I called Confucianism a religion in front of my Korean colleague and she was shocked, SHOCKED. She called it, “Too many rules.”

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  @johnnyli4702 · 5 years ago (edited)

  This is all strange to me because growing up, there seemed to be no separation between Confucianism, Buddhism, or Daoism. In my household and in all the media we consume, it seemed like everyone just believed (or entertained the notion of) an amalgam of all three. Even though there were few specifically Buddhist idols in my house, one of the Daoist goddesses (using feminine pronouns because Guan Yin&apos; seems to identify as female) is called Buddhist, and my family seems to call themselves Buddhist despite the worship of ancestors and other explicitly Daoist deities.

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• TU

  @Tullio238 · 5 years ago

  The more scholarly aesthetic of your videos is quite refreshing - it&apos;s a rarity on Youtube to see an introduction that actually lays down relevant context instead of being a melange of sales pitch and in-jokes

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  @lakrids-pibe · 5 years ago

  The trio of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and their relationship is super interesting.

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  @MrJethroha · 5 years ago

  People sometimes poke fun at the Romans for pretending that the pantheons of every group they ran into were basically same as the Hellenistic pantheon, but Christian missionaries don&apos;t seem to be any better here

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  @xili4973 · 5 years ago

  Speaking of ancestor worship… I consider it more of a way of comfort to the living. When our family members are dead, we don’t want them to leave forever, so are believing their deaths as the other way of living. Setting up altars for them is just the way to show them our love and honoring. Because they are not leaving us, we can still offer them food and talk about what we encounter in lives like always, and believe that when we pray to them, our ancestors will always help us and protect us like when they are still living. So, the idea of ancestor is to let them be remembered and stay existing, unlike what when you are worshipping a god.

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  @Jack2000-fq7ph · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t think Confucius wanted to be worshipped. But he was a great sage for sure, great video by the way 👍

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  @WhoAmI-po7bx · 5 years ago

  As a Southeast Asian Chinese, Confucianism seems to be very much part of the overall culture, rather than seen exclusively as a religion. On the note of exclusivity, I think I have seen all three major Chinese religions and folk religions in the same temple like the Tua Pek Kong Temple in Sitiawan, Malaysia. Personally I think Chinese classics (e.g. Journey to the West where both Taoist and Buddhist deities exist together) played a huge role in normalising this sort of non-exclusivity.<br><br>Interestingly, I never knew Tua Pek Kong is our own Southeast Asian extension of the Chinese Folk Religion, who is not part of the &quot;original&quot; mythology. And that such mix-religion SEA Chinese temples are not exactly uncommon. Huh.

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• VW

  @vw8gip8c · 5 years ago

  First Bible in China was composed by Nestorian during Tang Dynasty.<br>This Nestorian Bible used many Buddhists term to illustrate gospels.

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  @w0197 · 5 years ago

  East Asia&apos;s views on religion continue to baffle my western mind and intrigue my academic soul.

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