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Old 04-21-2010, 08:54 AM
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Default are confucianism polytheistic or momotheistic?

are confucianism polytheistic or momotheistic?
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Old 04-26-2010, 08:54 AM
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Confucious says: believe what you want, just live a good life.
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Old 04-30-2010, 08:54 AM
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No. They have no god to the best of my knowledge.
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Old 05-02-2010, 08:54 AM
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ancestor worship, so polytheistic, sort of.

You only worship your own ancestors, though.

It's really a philosophy, not a religion.
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Old 05-05-2010, 08:54 AM
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Confucious said (translating literally) to respect the ghosts and gods yet keep away from them, so I think Confucius didn't be live in just one God.
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Old 05-09-2010, 08:54 AM
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Frankly, it doesn't care. Of course, we would probably consider it to be polytheistic as, in its original form, it was tied to ancestor worship. And the idea of the Mandate from Heaven, which is at the core of the philosophy, is certainly about a god or gods, though Confucius doesn't seem to care which ones.
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