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A year and a half in Bangkok (as ‘Nam activity was ramping up) as a baby Christian, among mostly Buddhists, was interesting.


63 posted on 12/27/2015 3:52:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
A year and a half in Bangkok (as ‘Nam activity was ramping up) as a baby Christian, among mostly Buddhists, was interesting.

Buddhists have no god as we know it.
The Buddha was Sidhartha Gautama and he was "enlightened," not God. People there MADE him a deity despite his continual protestations.

Most Buddhists also have other gods to worship. The Japanese, for example, are into hero/culture worship. They had no "God" as we know either.
The Chinese had a PANTHEON of gods: garden god, kitchen god, etc., a god for everything, everywhere and all the time.
I imagine the concept (reality for me) of ONE God might be just too alien for them.

We visited Thailand back in the early-mid 1980's. We loved it. I would go back there in a New York minute. Thai food is one of my VERY favorite foods. The yummiest dessert is mango and sticky rice. :o)!!

65 posted on 12/27/2015 2:15:20 PM PST by cloudmountain
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