Largest world religions by followers: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Folk Religion. I know Christianity decently, and while joy is something you’re sometimes supposed to get out of a life lived in accordance with God it isn’t the point. (There are many Christian variants, I haven’t dug into every interpretation, I think I’m generally right here.) Islam, I thought I read the Quran at one point but admit I can’t remember much of anything. For Hinduism I read the Bhagavad Gita and remember the outline and some choice quotes, I assert that happiness is part of it but mostly in a “be happy filling your pre-destined role” way. Folk Religion is a grab bag of a bunch of different things and I can’t tell why that got lumped under one category.
Sanity check; “happiness” or “happy” shows up 5 times in the Buddhism wikipedia page, 0 times on the Islam wikipedia page, 0 times on the Christianity wikipedia page, 1 time on the Judaism wikipedia page, and 2 times on the Hinduism page (one of those in a footnote.)
I am not Jewish, but the joke I’ve heard from several Jews is that Jewish holidays follow the structure “first they tried to kill us, then we won, let’s eat”? I’m not saying that doesn’t have a happy ending but step one is pretty bad. C’mon, Judaism doesn’t have a monopoly on eating delicious food for holidays!
I am not Jewish, but the joke I’ve heard from several Jews is that Jewish holidays follow the structure “first they tried to kill us, then we won, let’s eat”?
I am not Jewish, but the joke I’ve heard from several Jews is that Jewish holidays follow the structure “first they tried to kill us, then we won, let’s eat”? I’m not saying that doesn’t have a happy ending but step one is pretty bad.
Of course, but step one is not exactly under one’s control, as a Jew… hardly seems fair to count that against the religion itself!
C’mon, Judaism doesn’t have a monopoly on eating delicious food for holidays!
Largest world religions by followers: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Folk Religion. I know Christianity decently, and while joy is something you’re sometimes supposed to get out of a life lived in accordance with God it isn’t the point. (There are many Christian variants, I haven’t dug into every interpretation, I think I’m generally right here.) Islam, I thought I read the Quran at one point but admit I can’t remember much of anything. For Hinduism I read the Bhagavad Gita and remember the outline and some choice quotes, I assert that happiness is part of it but mostly in a “be happy filling your pre-destined role” way. Folk Religion is a grab bag of a bunch of different things and I can’t tell why that got lumped under one category.
Sanity check; “happiness” or “happy” shows up 5 times in the Buddhism wikipedia page, 0 times on the Islam wikipedia page, 0 times on the Christianity wikipedia page, 1 time on the Judaism wikipedia page, and 2 times on the Hinduism page (one of those in a footnote.)
I am not Jewish, but the joke I’ve heard from several Jews is that Jewish holidays follow the structure “first they tried to kill us, then we won, let’s eat”? I’m not saying that doesn’t have a happy ending but step one is pretty bad. C’mon, Judaism doesn’t have a monopoly on eating delicious food for holidays!
A helpful analysis.
Of course, but step one is not exactly under one’s control, as a Jew… hardly seems fair to count that against the religion itself!
Matter of taste, I suppose…