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Jiang says multiple religious traditions, including Buddhism and Hinduism, share the same underlying conception of ultimate reality despite local differences.
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Comparative Religion
Jiang compares Mayan divine-service mythology to the Enuma Elish and Catholic Church, arguing that multiple religions imagine humans as servants or slaves of God.
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Jiang compares Mayan divine-service mythology to the Enuma Elish and Catholic Church, arguing that multiple religions imagine humans as servants or slaves of God.
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Zoroastrianism is presented as the first truly grand, complete, and unified religion because it offers a creator God, cosmic order, evil corruption, and a coherent structure.
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Zoroastrianism makes goodness an internal moral obligation, unlike systems Jiang associates with achievement, status, or luck.
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"No, no, no, no. Okay, listen, okay? You have to get this straight, okay? This is everything, okay? Love, knowledge, everything, okay? The question..."
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"This is exactly Buddhism and Hinduism, okay? So this is really interesting how different religious traditions working in different localities have the same conception..."
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"of these religions where we have to believe that the gods created us in order to serve them. We are slaves to the gods,..."
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"What is referred to as the immutable and unwritten laws of the cosmos. Okay? And this is what the Greeks believed. This is what..."
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"Okay? We're here at most for sixty eighty years and what we do in these sixty eighty years will be will decide how we..."
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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