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Incompatitbility of Budo and Christianity?


Do you think Martial Arts are a Religion?  

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  1. 1. Do you think Martial Arts are a Religion?

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That was a good book ( bible) a lot of good stories, drunk fishermen write good fictional tales.

 

Now there's a good way to start a flame war and get this topic locked. This is exactly why I don't like these topics, they can never go on civally for too long.

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I also have a question which has been around longer?

 

:-?

 

What exactly are you asking has been out longer, martial arts or christianty or buddism/christianty? And what is the relevance to the topic at hand?

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Budo literally means "fighting path" and so would be as old as civilization... a quick web-search indicates that organized "Budo" (Japanese schools teaching it as a philsophy) is only about 400 years old. Christianity, we know, began somewhere between 30 and 70 AD.

 

So organized Christianity is older than organized Budo... I'm not sure why this fact would upset anyone.

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Daruma arrived is shoalin-si china from india in 5th century bc and taught zen buddhism, now that sounds pretty well organized even if it was small because you must remember that the followers of christ at the time were also the minority.

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Daruma arrived is shoalin-si china from india in 5th century bc and taught zen buddhism, now that sounds pretty well organized even if it was small because you must remember that the followers of christ at the time were also the minority.

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yes but you asked about budo, not zen. there's a difference.

"It is not how much you know but how well you have mastered what you've learnt. When making an assessment of one's martial arts training one should measure the depth rather than the length".

- MASTER "General" D. Lacey

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