| Show VARIOUS RELIGIONS philosophical view of idolatrous systems SALT LAKE CITY nov ia 1888 editor deseret news man to is a religious being he cannot thrive well without religion 6 man shall not live by bread alone what some call religion others may call sin or folly history 1119 tory informs us that there are ten greit religions namely those ot of deiy t gree greece hi doostan doo rome and Scandinavia also those of moses buddha mohammed and jesus of nazareth out of these have grown several hundred smaller or minor religions li and some of the above named grew out of others of them notably buddhism out of brahmanism Bran or hin destanee dost anee much in the same way as ag grew out of romanism history informs orals us that Zain gilus or zwingle luther callip and others protested against the ot of the roman boman catholic church and preached reformation estaba establishing ant shing what the protestants then and now claim to be the christian religion but bat 1 bow i owe a pure stream islade is made to lot cearly f from r oin a corrupt fountain does not brearly appear pear the protestants have never claimed to have received new revelation from ci chrisc lat nor authority from any other source to establish or establish reestablish re christianity and yet they persist even downto down to the present day in in claiming bhat the roman catholic church is 19 CORRUPT and not of christ jesus but en an that subject I 1 will leave everyone every one to draw their own conclusions I 1 wish lor for a few moments to compare this romanism which was essentially a state religion and buddhism Budda ism which Is id of an older growth Sonam so numerous erous are the resemblances between the rights and ceremonies of toe the buddhist system and those of the church that the fir A t catholic missionaries who encountered the of buddha were confounded aad and thought that satan had bad been mocking their sacred rites father bury y a portuguese missionary when tie b beheld abeld them praying in an unknwon tongue and kneeling before images exclaimed in astonishment there is not a piece of dress not a sacerdotal function not a ceremony of toe the court ot of rom home which the devil has had not ca copied led in this country mr davis in transactions Transaction ol 01 toe the bayal boyal asiatic society 11 speaks of the celibacy ot the buddhist clergy and the monastic life of the societies ol of both exes to which be added their strings of u beads their manner of f chanting prayers their incense and candles the benedictions given by the lamas the legious the lasts the be pro sessions cessions ces 8 I 1 the noly holy water all these are analogies between buddhists and roman catholics the buddhists have also lor women and in thi bet there isa lama wao is a sort of buddhist page NOW THIS BUDDHISM with its existed some five hundred years before our era so trio me theory of father bury bad aad others that it was copied from Ro manisto tails falls to the ground and it being the older we may lastly justly conclude than romanism was copied from it and is therefore the buddhism of the west there theire are how however some things in which romanism Ro maniam differs differ 4 from buddhism tae Budda Badda tats founded no inqui an fn sitton sWon they combined zeal with toleration loler alion theirs their is a religion of much humanity it seeks to save by bt the knowledge of the laws of fre it makes morality consist in progress by obedience to natural law As to what has been gained by the change I 1 leave toe the reader to draw his bis own cona conclusions clu Ous lons these ancient religions reli arlous zions except those established by moses momammed and christ emi embraced raced a great T eat number of gods and deities fd idol ol 01 worship is claimed by balach tach for the others there is much said and written about idolatrous worship and often we may seriously doubt trie toe author a havn having a c clear I 1 a r comprehension of the worshippers shippers wor 0 r it p e r real al meaning there is 1 in my mind F d a very strong probability that most or all the images paintings etc baci used by some ot of the so calleo called idol worshippers wor shippers are each of them a symuel of a divine thought ot of the creator they reverence the crater in his works and only use the work as a reminder and not lor for res rea worship it is also very possible that i primitive or childlike tribes or n nations who are not dot aup supposed to possess great atre strength agath ol of wind could better concentrate what powers of mind they did have to pro properly p conceive of a being whether the true god or some other whom they could not noi see by braving some a abject ct they could see to assist them tam so the roman boman catholic kneeling before a pic ture of the madonna does not mean to pray to the picture but by means of the picture to keep his mind fixed on the Fa visible mother of christ probably I 1 just not so the savages use their so ao called idols as helps and pray to god gad behind them such Is 18 possibly the legitimate origin of idolatry there to is however this one element emerit el in common the faith in unseen powers above us but not far from us to whom we can speak and who can hear and answer rayer prayer no matter how bow much the g hundreds of religions ot of the world may differ they agree in this thia testimony that man has baa a natural inborn faith to in supernatural powers with whom he can commune and to whom lae he is in some way or some how bow related ze respecting the idolatry of modern times I 1 have been somewhat astonished considering the boasted gospel haht of this age particularly in the last halt balf of this idolatrous worship I 1 propose having soi something to say in another article connecting it more closely with dissenters or of era fron the roman catholic church and those who have since dissented from them or their respective creeds which more immediately concern us tod today respectfully A hamlton 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