2026-10-28 23:56 UTC
It’s interesting to think of the world religions that could have been, had the scales of power tipped in different directions. Gnosticism is an interesting take on Abrahamic religions, almost like a blend of Christianity and Buddhism.
There were even literal Greek Buddhists before there were Greek Christians. Heck, Christianity as we know it might not have survived without the original Greek drafts of the New Testament. There’s another universe out there where the eastern Greco-Romans were way too busy with the karmic cycle and achieving enlightenment to worry about the execution of some random guy with daddy issues in the desert.
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@saimen@feddit.org 2026-10-29 06:16
Some say Jesus was actually influenced a lot by Buddhist philosophy or even has been to India
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@spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 2026-10-29 00:15
Who says that was a different universe? You should understand by now how history frequently forgets such peaceful people in favor of the authoritarian de jure. Turns out, humanity and its ilk hell bent on insisting they’re so important are just cancer. Pure and simple. Terminal cancer we’re all watching take hold.