- Joined
- Aug 21, 2018
In my nascent attempts to form a worldview I took elements like karma from these eastern religions and reflexively syncretized them with elements from the Christian tradition. I had already despised the idea of predetermination from the Calvinists but I failed to realize how similar concepts infest eastern religions as well. One good thing I can say about Islam and the Inshallah state of mind is that they don't think that succeeding neccesiatates that success means they were obviously superior people in a past life. They just see that a good thing for them has occurred and without questioning the will of god simply express "god wills it". Present tense.Dharmic religions (buddhism, hinduism, jainism) have one massive problem in that they are mostly about obsessive adherence to religious rituals and helping others is an afterthought. The poor suffer simply because they accumulated bad karma (or their previous reincarnations did) and there is no reason to bother helping them. The charity is not performed to help but to accumulate good karma for doing religious rituals
