The intricacies and differences of the understanding of our whole world and the culture of the time are miles away from the culture wars we have now. Not only that, it's condensing ~1000 years of history into a comparable culture war that we've been having since like... the 1950s? if you want to try and trace modern day thought back that far. And there's still a great deal different between the progressivism before and after the 80s and culture wars post Web 2.0 in particular. But it is such a massive gloss over of time and the culture of multiple European areas with their own languages and internal conflicts, not to mention a lot of mini episodes about the rise and fall of different dynasties and people in the church and out out of it. While we have all the same feelings and drives our ancestors did, we have a much harder time grasping the context and culture. The past can be a truly foreign world even if they speak the same language as you.
I'm sure there are some sagas that do mirror our current religious and cultural views, but we are comparing such a short amount of time (I'll say anywhere from the 90s to Now for modern internet and politics affecting the discussion) to 500 to 1000 years of history across multiple cultures. The simplification is insane.
A bunch of my neighbors are hardcore protestants and they 100% think Catholics aren't Christians. It's the only based opinion they have.
Nothing's funnier than not only hating another denomination, but actively saying straight up they're not true Christian. Especially when other denominations talk about mormons.
I'm of the camp that since they are the original Christianity, I do think they're Christian, but people who decided their saint worship & rituals deviate too much from what was written about false idols & such are fine too.
despite not being religious at all.
This is a common misconception due to how ingrained religion is and how it is viewed. I remember that people in Japan consider others religious if they are actually a monk, a priest, or other sort of active religious role rather than going to a shine & praying or believing in spirits. There's more who do that instead of straight up not believing.
China's history with religion is scattered and bafflingly hard to comprehend. While commies tried to stamp everything out, a lot still stayed. Classic Chinese beliefs and superstition still is ingrained into the people for the most part, with ancestor worship, regional hero worship, and various deities worshipped. Taoism & Buddhism are blended in, and lots of Confuciuian principles are followed. There's not as many religious officials or as much structure around it, but you bet there's still some Chinese people out there asking for exorcisms and other relgious services. There's still plenty of businesses with shrines for money and homes with shrines for ancestors. It's hard to describe since China is a huge conglomerate mash up of several different kingdoms and ethnicities who enjoyed arguing and fighting with each other for thousands of years until more recent times where modern Chinese government emerged and tried to smush everything into one, with mixed results. It is weird as hell to look at, and in a country with so many people in so many different areas, super hard to keep track of since there's no religious leaders or big organizations - not unless you want the commies to smother you for trying to get a piece of the control pie.
The CCP also introduced worship of the party into the daily life of their subjects, of course, so you have ancestor/political party crossover worship.
Those "Other" in that link could be Buddhists or Shintos which truth to be told are not truly Theistic religions in a sense, and you do not know of the political affilitations of Zoomers who are in religions that don't belong to the Abrahamic religions.
Hello, welcome to my sperg hour. If we talk about western Buddhism which spawned more from orientalism & the new age movement, then yes. That was born out of westerners being dissatisfied with their own current religious times and incorporating practices from other cultures for a change without grasping all of it. If we're talking not-new-age Buddhism,
there definitely are gods. Which ones depend on branch and region - there's basically as many denominations of Buddhism as there are Christianity. They can also be tied to nation and language, and can stumble into nationalism or cross over with local traditions like Christianity does.
Your zoomer Buddhists are likely new age spergs first and formost, and much more likely to follow the "philosophy" aspect. While some get into Buddhism and go deeper as a practicing religion, young people are currently trying out how they react to things, how they want their beliefs to work, and how they identify and relate to it. As in, they're doing a baby's first religious tour that's popular at that age. They're more likely to settle for a religion that has either more adherents to it for the community or something closer to what they grew up with, like Buddhism with Christianity traits.
