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6/21/2025, 3:00:06 PM
>>24484650
So do Buddhists.
So do Jainists.
Hell, most eastern religions in general end up being in this camp. Daoists encourage their followers to stop participating in society and normal life and focus on the spiritual beyond the world. Hindus ultimately seek to escape the cycle of reincarnation (ceasing to exist in the material world), even if they don't outright hate the world. This attitude even ends up in some forms of Christianity. See >>24484550
Judaism, western Christianity and non-Sufi schools of Islam are the only religions that preach the goodness of the material world (even if it is fallen). The Abrahamic doctrine of resurrection is always resurrection of the body. A creation of a new Earth. Not an escape to something better.
Its why Jews (including modern Atheist Jews) continue to declare Gnosticism to be inherently antisemitic. Gnosticism explicitly rejects the Jewish God of Abraham (labeled the Demiurge) and the world made by the Jewish God. Those schools of Gnostic thought which feature Jesus or Christ (too many to list) always interpret Jesus to represent something other than the Jewish God or the material world.
So do Buddhists.
So do Jainists.
Hell, most eastern religions in general end up being in this camp. Daoists encourage their followers to stop participating in society and normal life and focus on the spiritual beyond the world. Hindus ultimately seek to escape the cycle of reincarnation (ceasing to exist in the material world), even if they don't outright hate the world. This attitude even ends up in some forms of Christianity. See >>24484550
Judaism, western Christianity and non-Sufi schools of Islam are the only religions that preach the goodness of the material world (even if it is fallen). The Abrahamic doctrine of resurrection is always resurrection of the body. A creation of a new Earth. Not an escape to something better.
Its why Jews (including modern Atheist Jews) continue to declare Gnosticism to be inherently antisemitic. Gnosticism explicitly rejects the Jewish God of Abraham (labeled the Demiurge) and the world made by the Jewish God. Those schools of Gnostic thought which feature Jesus or Christ (too many to list) always interpret Jesus to represent something other than the Jewish God or the material world.
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