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Neither are religions, in the way that term is recognized in the west.
Taoism is a spiritual path (It means "way") that stresses peace and self-awareness, with an element of fatalism involved.
Confucianism is a system of social interaction that encourages respect, compassion and propriety between all people, and describes a complex and rigid structure of relationships (children and parents, teacher and student, master and servant etc.) and a formal framework for the duties and interactions between the parties of those relationships.
Neither is incompatible with the other, nor with any other religious/spiritual path. You can be a christian-Taoist, a pagan-Taoist, an atheist-Taoist, etc.
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