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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3190516" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>The problem is our popular culture likes to selectively incorporate aspects of other cultures because they like the idea.&nbsp; Karma is a Buddhist concept, but we&#039;re not Buddhists.&nbsp; Doing this is especially popular among those that are anti-Christian.&nbsp; And has become commonplace.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t make it so but people are free to believe what they want.&nbsp; A similar concept is in the Bible.&nbsp; Your sins will find you out.&nbsp; But we have so many in this country looking for meaning in other places.&nbsp; Doing yoga and citing Karma doesn&#039;t make you a Buddhist.&nbsp; Living on an American Indian reservation doesn&#039;t make you a Native American.&nbsp; I know expats in Mexico who scorn others who don&#039;t try to live as much like a Mexican as possible but they kid themselves.&nbsp; They&#039;ll always be an outsider to that culture.&nbsp; But if that&#039;s what people want to do that&#039;s their business.&nbsp; But putting down my beliefs while incorporating aspects of other belief systems is a bit contradictory IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3190516, member: 24302"] The problem is our popular culture likes to selectively incorporate aspects of other cultures because they like the idea. Karma is a Buddhist concept, but we're not Buddhists. Doing this is especially popular among those that are anti-Christian. And has become commonplace. Doesn't make it so but people are free to believe what they want. A similar concept is in the Bible. Your sins will find you out. But we have so many in this country looking for meaning in other places. Doing yoga and citing Karma doesn't make you a Buddhist. Living on an American Indian reservation doesn't make you a Native American. I know expats in Mexico who scorn others who don't try to live as much like a Mexican as possible but they kid themselves. They'll always be an outsider to that culture. But if that's what people want to do that's their business. But putting down my beliefs while incorporating aspects of other belief systems is a bit contradictory IMO. [/QUOTE]

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