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Discussion/QuestionHas There Ever Been a Non-Religious Civilization? (self.history)

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[–]LaputanAcademy [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

The Chinese? I mean, there is Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism and so on, but none have been dominant through its history and none are religious in the same way as Christianity and Islam, though I suppose they are 'a system of codified beliefs specifically regarding human existence and supernatural involvement'.

But there's never been a state religion, or an institutionalised religion with Church etc. In East Asia, they mix and match belief systems in a way that Christians and Muslims do not.

[–]Lucretiel [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

They have divine right, thought, right? At least, before the modern post-revolution China. Didn't they believe that their emperor was an avatar of god, or literally a god, or something like that? Would that count?

[–]LaputanAcademy [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I mean, sort of. They believed that the Emperor represented Heaven's way, though what that entailed varied. At some times in Chinese history it meant that if he ruled badly he should be overthrown, because he clearly did not have Heaven's blessing. But I wouldn't say that's comparable to, say, Christianity becoming the religion of the Romans under Constantine, which seems much more, well, all-encompassing.

[–]QuouarQuite the arrogant one. [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

A religion does not have to be Christianity or Islam to be a religion. Non-Abrahamic faiths are still real faiths, even if they don't look the same. China has a long and illustrious history of faith, religion, and spirituality, as you've pointed out.