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Confucianism
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If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to learn from this tradition is not that Confucianism is not a religion but that not all religious people parse the sacred and the secular the way Christians do.
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― God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
― God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
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What's wrong with China?" Dr. Frene demanded of me almost immediately, after Nym introduced us. "Why were the Chinese able to invent everything and develop nothing? Why did Chinese civilization undergo a menopause? What happened to China's creative power?"
"Maybe China atrophied because of lack of competition," I suggested weakly.
"Nonsense!" he screamed mildly. "China is a case of stability achieved at the expense of stifling the individual. The society lives but the creative personality dies
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― Journey to the Beginning
― Journey to the Beginning
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