Comment Multiple Religions for Multiple Purposes (Score 1) 683
>"best tools for the job" etc.
This reminds me of what I know about Japanese religion. If my sources and memory are right, then the Japanese have both Shintoism and Buddhism - rather conveniently, Shintoism doesn't deal with the afterlife and Buddhism doesn't deal with the gods, so they fit well together. IIRC, they also had Confuscism (sp?), and (I'm less sure of this) at times some of them tried to shoehorn Christianity into the mix, only to realise that it didn't sit well with the others.
Of course, Christianity (as with most Judaism-derived religions) doesn't mix well with anything - the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods" tends to cause problems...
This reminds me of what I know about Japanese religion. If my sources and memory are right, then the Japanese have both Shintoism and Buddhism - rather conveniently, Shintoism doesn't deal with the afterlife and Buddhism doesn't deal with the gods, so they fit well together. IIRC, they also had Confuscism (sp?), and (I'm less sure of this) at times some of them tried to shoehorn Christianity into the mix, only to realise that it didn't sit well with the others.
Of course, Christianity (as with most Judaism-derived religions) doesn't mix well with anything - the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods" tends to cause problems...
