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Do all traditional religions have a core notion of surrender as a central tenet? 🤔 Islam and Christianity do but I’m not sure of the rest.
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Same tree/base class. Orthodox/Catholic/Protestant diffs are no bigger than Shia/Sunni or Mahayana/Theravada or Vaishnavism/Shaivism. In fact the range of Christianity is narrower not wider.
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I can't speak about Shia/Sunni splits nor the other ones. But the basic beliefs of Orthodoxy are very different from Catholicism. And I feel I have more in common with a Buddhist than a Mormon. And I can't even begin to understand Evangelical Protestantism.
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To my original point, I define “traditional” as “roots in the peculiar conditions of the axial age” Note that no new religions with unrelated roots in post 800 AD events have survived.
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Perhaps Protestantism is indeed very different from Greek Orthodox. But both trace to life of Christ in mid-axial age. By contrast take Scientology. Or Baha’i. Came later, not more than marginal status. They’ve taken essentially no market share from trad religions.