Had some similar ideas, but was mostly concerned with the elimination of the self, which is something different. But more importantly, it was a non-player outside of Asia for the most part of history. Even today, after a century of spreading of Buddhist ideas here, it's cultural impact in the popular culture of West is negligible.
>As for trans-ethnic, I thought this was a later addition to Christianity - after all, Jews are still the "chosen people", right?
Huh? No, jews are not the "chosen people" in Christianity. Christianity has no special affinity to the Jews as such. The tacked-on Old Testament stories relating to Israel etc. -- and previously part of the jewish "state religion" (from the Tower of Babel to Noah's flood etc), are taken to apply to "the whole of humanity" by Christians.
I think it's a shame that in the US especially, most christian doctrine is relegated to the Old Testament -- but then again, the US was founded by christian sectarians thrown out from Europe for such differences of opinion.
Here's how Paul the apostle, put the trans-ethnic thing: "There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.".
And of course Jesus himself is said to have told his disciples "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation".
Had some similar ideas, but was mostly concerned with the elimination of the self, which is something different. But more importantly, it was a non-player outside of Asia for the most part of history. Even today, after a century of spreading of Buddhist ideas here, it's cultural impact in the popular culture of West is negligible.
>As for trans-ethnic, I thought this was a later addition to Christianity - after all, Jews are still the "chosen people", right?
Huh? No, jews are not the "chosen people" in Christianity. Christianity has no special affinity to the Jews as such. The tacked-on Old Testament stories relating to Israel etc. -- and previously part of the jewish "state religion" (from the Tower of Babel to Noah's flood etc), are taken to apply to "the whole of humanity" by Christians.
I think it's a shame that in the US especially, most christian doctrine is relegated to the Old Testament -- but then again, the US was founded by christian sectarians thrown out from Europe for such differences of opinion.
Here's how Paul the apostle, put the trans-ethnic thing: "There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.".
And of course Jesus himself is said to have told his disciples "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation".