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Do you know anyone who is dual faith? (lemm.ee)

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I have a soft spot for the topic of people who are dual faith. It's weird, you know. If you're an atheist, you get a thumbs up from me. If you're religious with one faith, you get a raised eyebrow from me. And if you are dual faith, you get two thumbs up from me. It just feels like you're more open-minded if you are more than one faith.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I don't understand how dual faith works Alot of the major religions of the world have core beliefs that contradict each other The Islamic faith for example has the core belief, God is one and one alone and he was not born, has no children Christianity is about accepting Jesus as one's lord and savior and that he is the son of god. You cannot believe one faith without disbelieving the other, "dual faith" cannot work like that I gave an example of the two largest religions in the world and how you cannot be Christian and Muslim at the same time, which I thought was obvious But plz do tell me an example of a "dual faith" that can exist without violating one belief from the other. I am sure none exist and this concept itself is quite bizzare and fundamentally paradoxical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

But plz do tell me an example of a "dual faith" that can exist without violating one belief from the other.

Two very common ones are Confucianism + Taoism + Mahayana Buddhism (optional) in China and Shinto + Mahayana Buddhism + Christianity (optional) in Japan. The first is rather entertaining, because Confucianism and Taoism often have opposite teachings (falling respectively on the 'ascend to technocrat' and 'retvrn to monke' ends of the political compass meme). And yet, for the majority of Chinese history, most people - or at least most people who left behind written records - were both Confucian and Taoist.

There are also various blends of religions in South Asia, including Sufism, Sikhism (both Islam + Hinduism), various schools of Hinduism + Buddhism, and Navayana Buddhism (Buddhism + Marxism). Mentioning these to fundamentalists of any of the pure religions is not recommended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Judaism and Buddhism. They even have a name, "jubu". Robert Downy Jr. of all people went into length on this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Judaism is a strict Monotheistic religion Buddhism is often described as a nontheistic religion, no mention of one Monotheistic creator diety. however some teachings describe "devas" as divine beings who are also in a perpetual cycle like life is, which is the basic principle of Buddhism and such is anything but a Monotheistic religion

So no, you can't be Buddhist and follow Judaism at the same time or whatever since believing in no one creator entity violates Judaism. So this "Jubu" thing doesn't really make sense if one thinks about the basic beliefs of both religions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Well, it exists. Some sects of Buddhism don't consider the devas/asuras gods. Buddha himself went on to say divinity on its own shouldn't inspire worship.