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  • April 9, 2005 at 7:25 am #3846
    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    One of the things i noticed about this was how Buddhism and Daosim were associated as practically synonyms with " debauchery, larceny, and sorcery" in the genealogy rules. as a matter of fact, anyone practicing such as taken off the family genealogy! its interesting to think that buddhism will later become one of asia's most predominant method of religious practices. it still confuses me a bit in how religious practices was looked upon as 'sorcery', something so serious that you would be removed from your family tree.
    so what did they practice then. was there an alternative form of religion. were they apathetic to god in general (i find that hard to believe). but Buddhism and Daoism. it seems that that pretty much eliminates all possible forms of religious worship at the time in Asia, at least to my limited understanding

    September 16, 2006 at 3:58 am #21639
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    As far as the post by afang stating "it still confuses me a bit in how religious practices was looked upon as 'sorcery', something so serious that you would be removed from your family tree." It occurs to me that labelling a previous religion as sorcery.This is comparable to an ad campaign, making the one religion
    sound like a black art in order to prevent them from reestablishing their membership.

    My own ancestors in Wales deleted portions of their cultural heritage, by abruptly transforming their last names from traditional Welsh (i. e. Llewelyn) to adopted Puritan surnames (i.e. Goode) upon their conversion to Puritanism.Upon crossing the Atlantic. this deletion of Celtic religious and cultural heritage culminated in witch hunts and burnings at the stake of suspected practitioners of the Celtic religions.

    Whether any names were deleted from this family tree, I do not know.

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