Cao Dai: Rojak Religion

January 09, 2010

Caodaism believes in something of everything - Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism and whatever religion you can possibly think of. They believe all religions in the world ultimately sends the same message - to bring love and peace to mankind.

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it really does not make sense to me. Their hierarchical organization follows the Roman Catholicism. They have a pope, cardinals, bishops and priests and they pray in a building called temple, not church. Bcos they follow occult practices from Taoism, their daily ritual bears a strong resemblance to that of a Chinese funeral.

Sun Yat-sen (Chinese revolutionist), Victor Hugo (French poet) and Nguyen Binh Khiem (Vietnamese administrator) never met each other before. When Hugo died, Sun Yat-sen was only 19 years old. Mr Nguyen was not even from the 19th century. How did they come together to sign a covenant between God and humanity?

There are many strange things in this world. Oddly, this was one of the best shot in the whole trip.

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