They continue because they are a "result" and "consequence" of not believing what God says. The actual sin begins long before the results. And we have far more serious problems then the outcomes of "behavior".....the hearts of men grow more vile and dangerous today as people "follow" those who dress in robes and "flaunt their evil before you"....
And the difference is???
A Buddist Ceremony
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Catholic Procession
Very colorful.
The Buddhists don't have a "god," like the 330-million-faces-of-God that the Hindus have. They just put Sidharth Gautama as The One.
Although the Buddha was just a fairly ordinary Hindu, he, Sidhartha Gautama, INSISTED that he wasn't a deity.
Many Asian Oriental cultures DID deify him, but that was THEIR choice, not Sidhartha's.
Their reality was "nothingness," if I remember right. I taught yoga for a long time and did talk about some of the Hindu faith, but only in a cultural and informational context. Most college students hadn't a CLUE as to anything historical about him.
India MIGHT have had an alphabet but they eschewed it ON PURPOSE for they didn't feel that their Holy Vedda should be sullied by being written out. It HAD been a purely oral tradition. Thus, all the information about the Buddha is based on oral tradition, not the most accurate form of historical recording. Sidharth Gautama's actual history is stuff made up of legends and fairly up to one's imagination or historical theorizing.
We Westerners did yoga for strength, flexibility, breathing and relaxing since yoga was taught as a physical education class--and nothing more.
Their head-dress reminds me a little of the Roman soldiers' head gear.
"Buddha" meant "enlightened" one, not "God."
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Catholic priestly vestments are colorful too: red for martyrs and green for "ordinary." There is quite a bit on them and the historical source of them is long, going back before Christ.
how different do you think two groups of people walking in a procession should look??? these could be lines leading up to the stage in a graduation ceremony....what's your problem with processions??