Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>>
>> Televangelists like Jim Bakker are basically scam artists who feed on
>> implanting people with fear and profiting off that fear.
>
> Are any religions different...

Yes.

> they're ALL fear mongers...

Nah.

http://www.patheos.com/Library/Confucianism

Thus even without deities and a vision of salvation, Confucianism plays
much the same role as religion does in other cultural contexts.

Confucius said heaven and the afterlife were beyond human capacity to
understand, and one should therefore concentrate instead on doing the
right thing in this life. The earliest records from his students
indicate that he did not provide many moral precepts; rather he taught
an attitude toward one's fellow humans of respect, particularly respect
for one's parents, teachers, and elders. He also encouraged his students
to learn from everyone they encountered and to honor others' cultural
norms.


(Sadly however...)


Later, his teachings would be translated by authoritarian political
philosophers into strict guidelines, and for much of Chinese history
Confucianism would be associated with an immutable hierarchy of
authority and unquestioning obedience.


> yoose think
> mooslim girls ain't ascared of having to choose between having their
> clit nipped off with a pair of rusty dikes or being stoned to death...

Profoundly so!