Abraxas: Beyond Good And Evil (The Divine Series Book 10)

"Time is the best preserver of righteous men." - Pindar

An extraordinary division exists between Western and Eastern religious thinking. No one in the mainstream media ever draws any attention to it. Why is this debate never allowed to happen? Who is it that benefits from ensuring that ordinary people are never confronted with the astounding differences between Western and Eastern religions? One thing is certain: either everyone in the East is going to hell, or the Western "believers" are the most deluded people in history.
 
A critical question arises - was Western religious thinking ever compatible with Eastern religion? If so, what caused the stark divergence of later history, and what became of those Western religions that were once in harmony with the East?
 
By "Western" religion we mean Abrahamism - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. "Eastern" refers to Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. All other religions are just variations on these themes.
 
What is the critical difference between West and East in terms of religion?