Been looking into the Dao De Jing, and in some ways it is eerily similar to Christianity. It especially reminds me of Ecclesiastes. The chapter on leadership is also similar to Jesus' teachings. It seems like the closest "religion" to Christianity, much more so than Judaism.
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>>41868669How so?
the tao de ching is literally just about 1 thing. Taoism as a whole is primarily the study of the afterlife, immortality, and exorcism
https://files.spiritmaji.com/books/Biblical,%20Gnostic/JESUS%2C%20BUDDHA%2C%20KRISHNA%2C%20LAO%20TZU%20-%20Hooper%2C%20Richard.pdfits 400 pages but the text size is huge
>>41868669That’s because everyone ends up riding the same ontological currents, kabbalah also follows pretty much the exact same cosmological structure as taoism when you remove the peripheral flavor elements.
>>41868669The christian translations of a famously vague text sound christian? No way!
>>41868669It is absolutely normal when you pick ESOTERIC texts you find them be alike
For Jesus the Hebrew God was like the pantheistic God of the Platonists and the Stoics, or the Dao. An all pervading force or spirit that gives birth to everything, hence he called himself the Son of God.
There's a little known period in church history where jesuits trying to convert the chinese became obsessed with the i ching and started dressing as confucian scholars. While ultimately the attempt failed Catholicism has had a subtle influence on eastern new religions like the reactionary eastern learning movement from the Korean peninsula
