From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 04:43:16 PDT
>..but then I also have a version of 'the teachings of Tao', am I
>confucious? :-o
No, you might be into comperative theology, though.
Or you might be a descendant of Confu Sing ;=}, the famous distant nephew
of Kungzi, who always mixed up his uncle, the conservative teacher of even
at his time old-fashioned morals (that's why he taught them - they were not
fashionable anymore; made getting employment as teacher difficult, though),
with that other guy Laozi, who was a librarian before his retirement.
Doesn't make matters easier that both were declared to be saints at one
point, and as gods a while later.
Actually, when faced with these "beliefs" and the Chinese strain of
buddhism, the earliest Christian missionars believed the Chinese people to
be the lost tribe of Juda, and that they had been revealed a part of the
New Testament, too. This didn't seem implausible given analysis of core
ethics and all the rumours of a Christian priest-king in the Middle or Far
East, which had abounded during the Crusades (when the knights in Palestine
were actually hoping for this Prester John and his trops to come and save
them).
Happy to have been of help,
DJV.
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