• kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        fr i got in a text joust with someone the other day over marxist interpretations of confucius and whether it can be called liberation theology, citing shit ripped off of baidu

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          9 months ago

          Something left out of that conversation (last I checked) is that Confucianism is pretty clearly not a religion by any recognizable standard, but a collection of texts, attitudes, and social practices. It is connected to religious ideas about ancestors and such, but they aren’t the same. Forgot your conversation was on a tangent about Taoism, which is popularly religious.

          Also creating a third term to describe the broader genre instead of slapping the Christian name on everything is probably a good call.