Is Taoism compatible with Christianity?
>>25580820No because Christianity is exclusive
depends, which school of Daoism?
>>25580820There are a few zen parables that are just like those in the gospels. Some principles of confucianism can be translated to the christian concept of charity. I guess bein one with the tao can be equated with being one with god if you look at it a bit sideways
>>25580836>which school of Daoism?Which ones would you say aren't compatible?
>I am the way, the truth, and the lifeYeah, it's not even a debate.
>>25580859the religious/spiritist ones?
Syncretism is a sin, so no. And yes, I'm a Christian who has an interest in Daoist philosophy.
>>25580820I've always treated Daoism as compatible in so far as it doesn't seek to be the ultimate nature of things. Trinitarian thought ultimately says that evil and good are both at once related (wheat and tares roots) and separable (thrown out at the end of time). Doaism claims eternal relation. I think it's fine to see democracy vs. aristocracy or even change vs. stability through a daoist lens, i.e. they feed into one another despite claiming to be opposites. Even genius and idiocy, as idiocy gives material for the genius to study.
>>25580820Just read the title. The Tao IS Christ. Not the other way around. Taosim is "compatible" in the sense that what the taoists were looking for and trying to describe (which is impossible, in language), is Christ. They have the theory, Christians have the theory in the Person.
>>25581001I recall reading in a Vatican II commentary that it was essentially determined that Christianity can be syncretized to a certain extent with most philosophical systems. The exact quote was something along the lines of "One can be a Christian and a Buddhist in the same sense that one can be a Christian and a Neoplatonist." Not saying I agree, just pointing it out.
Tao is, but Taoism isn’t.
>>25581143This is a confusion of terms and a baseless acceptance ot Vatican II evolutions in theology. A Buddhist must accept principles like impermanence and impersonal absolute. It’s impossible to square these with a God that lived as a man and has a personal relationship with you. Furthermore, the ethical bases which people use to become Buddhists are more evolved in Christianity. If one becomes a Buddhist because they’re called to the sort of self overcoming of the Buddha, who overcame the self more than Jesus Christ. This guy was so beyond his own human ego that they tortured him, put him on a cross, and he said “forgive them…”. Even if you don’t accept that he really performed miracles, Christ was the most enlightened individual who ever lived and there isn’t a single character of his stature in all of religion or history. Being a Buddhist after Christ is retarded.
>>25581172It's worth mentioning that Chrust's oublic ministry was 3 years, Guatama was like 50? Sermon on the Mount far exceeds any other moral exortation ever given in human history regardless of your religion.
>>25581172>Christ has a personal relationship with youstfu
>>25581001Christianity is THE syncretist religion, though. That's why it's been so successful.
Christianity - "Please do what you can to help the poor, the sick, the needy, the old, the young, the orphaned, the widowed, the oppressed, et cetera. If you want to have a personal relationship with Christ then you need to concern yourself with The Least of These My Brethren."Taoism - "LMFAO are you really trying to uplift peeps? ololololol who tf does that XDDD??"
>>25580820If you twist and turn enough, cut off some sticking out bits. Then you can fuse christianity and some other religion. Then later discard the non-christian parts as non-christian.
>>25581211>personal relationship with Christkill yourself
>>25581291watch out everyone we got a badass over here
>>25581211Daoism isn't slave morality.
>>25580820What kind of Christcuckery? What kind of Taoism? Regardless, you can make them compatible if you want. It's all nonsense.
>>25581549Daoism is about having no ambition. It's about continuing with your current life instead of trying to achieve anything or strive for anything. There's no philosophy more slavelike than Daoism.
>>25580820Geomancy is incompatible with Christianity (like all forms of divination) and AFAIK all branches of Taoism practice geomancy. So no.
>>25581638Since when did the New Testament prohibit divination?
>>25581648It's in Romans IIRC.
>>25581001>is an improvement on JudaismYeah doesn't compute
>>25581620Urmom is all nonsense. I drop a load in her and she keeps following me around.
>>25581634>freedom is slavery!Ok Orwell
Christians piggy back themselves to everything, it’s unseemly. At least Muslims just call everything else blasphemy and forcefully convert instead of trying to invade and co opt native faiths through loose association
>>25581682>you must worship a cubeNo
>>25581650>IIRCpost the verse, dipshit
>>25581675What would le christ think of that, I wonder...
>>25580831Taoism isn't a religion, and Christianity doesn't exclude it.
>>25581102>The Tao IS Christ.The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao, champ.
>>25581634You don't understand Taoism. It's about acting when the conditions are right, instead of struggling futilely when they're not.
>>25581682It's pitiful, isn't it. They know their own religion is a bust, so keep trying to rope others into its sphere.
>>25581889Yes. the paradox, not the contradiction, of the Trinity. God is in the world and beyond the world, revealed and yet a mystery, human and God, mortal and immortal, both named and still unnamed. God in His Essence is still beyond comprehension and beyond our world
>>25580820Are you joking? Of course not>t. Christian chink
>>25581102>>25581172I see the vision. Impersonal absolute is because they did not have revelation. Impermanence is right, seen properly as Solomon talks about in Ecclesiastes.Still, they're in a partial error, so guided right it leads to conversion.
>>25581634That must be why it was more popular with the Chinese slave caste
>>25583294Why not?
>>25580820No lol. Not even remotely.
is this board raided? every second post is >kikesor>kiketianityor some other /pol/faggotry
>>25583991/lit/ isn't a /pol/ raided board, its a /pol/-occupied board and no one is coming to kick them out
>>25580820You can translate Christianity to Taoist terms in order to evangelize taoists similar to how Christianity was translated into Platonic and later Neo-Platonic terms for the sake of proselytizing the Hellenized peoples of the ancient world. However, the two ultimately disagree just as how the Christian God is similar but not identical to the Platonic Demiurge or the Stoic LogosThere are certain concepts from Taoism which are very useful for understanding Christianity. In fact, this is why the in many (protestant) Chinese translations of the Bible, the divine Logos in the gospel of John is identified with the Tao while Roman Catholic Translations prefer the term "Yan" which means speech
>>25581648It's a prohibition from the Old Testament but also in the new testament. Divinitation is generally a sin, even when the witch of Endor called up the ghost (elohim) of the prophet Samuel on behalf of King Saul, it was a sin
>>25581634not true and I'm a christian
>>25580820I read this book and it's embarrassing how bad it is. Anyways, it's as compatible as any other philosophy for the most part.
>>25581143>I recall reading in a Vatican IISATANIST SUBVERSION OF THE TRUE RELIGION
>>25581190Jesus loves me this I know, because the Bible tells me so :)
>>25581682>>25581897>3 digit IQSeeing fragments of eternal truth in many traditions of the world, integrating them while constituting that only their religion contains the full truth>2 digit IQUnga bunga me right u wrong I hit u with club on the head
>>25581172>Being a Buddhist after Christ is retarded.As always Buddhism makes christians seethe. Never the other way around.
>>25580820No, of course not. Stop being a fucking retard.
>>25585382In fact it was satanic long before Vatican II.Dig deep enough, and you'll find out. Babylonian solar cult.
Why not?
Catholics worship graven images. Why would you ever listen to ANYTHING they ever had to say about anything ever?
>>25586135>>25585599least schizophrenic protestant
>>25586388Quit kissing the feet of the stone Mary, cocksucker.
>>25580820No, but Confucianism is
>>25580820Taoism is compatible with everything because to practice it you do nothing.
>>25580820YES
>>25580820Christianity pretends to be exclusive but is in fact historically a massively syncretic and perennialist religion that has repeatedly absorbed other religions wholesale. So long as you can get them to acknowledge the Christ the rest will fall in place eventually.>uuu butNo, protestants don't get a say in this since they're an instance of Rome successfully converting pagan retards so well that even when they broke away in the "Reformation" they framed it as a defense of Christianity instead of what it actually was--political revolt from Rome.
>>25586638Ooh or what, you're gonna get out your guitar and a smoke machine?
>>25586757No, you'll burn in hell.
>>25586671*raughs in hunanese*
>>25581001Then Christianity itself is a sin according to Christianity? What a retarded religion lol
>ERM.... CHRISTIANITY IS A SYNCRETIC RELIGION ACKCHUALLY Lying KIKE.
>>25580820>>25586671Confucianism and Taoism is just Christianity split in two when you think about it (but not in the gay perennialist/traditionalist way)
>>25588916No it's not, lol. Confucianism is literally just bureaucracy taken to a religious extreme. Once again/lit/ process they don't know what they're fucking talking about and that THEY DON'T FUCKING READ
>>25589092>process*PROCEEDS*
>>25580831You want the jingjiao documents, sometimes called 'the jesus sutras'. It's not quite as cut and dry as Arianism (Read, so much of the argument seems to be entirely based on word order and exegesis and whatever the version of exegesis that examines physical structure of the sentence is rather than its meaning) but it's worth a read.I mean, unless you're Orthodox, in which case it's a hilarious way to get beaten by a priest.
>>25589092You're confusing Confucianism with legalism. Confucianism is mainly just virtue ethics, but the legalism-niggers butchered it and made it all about "muh rationalism, muh government".
>>25585413What’s the real difference between saying pretty much everyone is partially wrong and you’re fully right and unga bunga? The book is just grafting Chinese philosophy where it doesn’t really belong to strengthen Christianity.
