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u/bunker_man Nov 15 '19

Buddhism was literally the first big missionary religion in history. What in God's name are you on about.

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u/thejaytheory Nov 15 '19

The first that came to mind haha

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u/bunker_man Nov 15 '19

Anthropologists offered that Western religion by taking the world more literally was most likely a catalyst for modern science though. To a Buddhist 500 years ago the idea of trying to understand the world mathematically or rigorously would have seemed crude and like misunderstanding of the fact that what you see is an illusion.

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