What if Buddhism reached the Philippines befors Islam did? How will this affect its history?
What if Buddhism reached the Philippines befors Islam did? How will this affect it's history?
Bumping...
Maybe a lasting Majapahit or Srivijaya empires would help, I think. Or, more interestingly, more Chinese/Japanese missionaries coming to the archipelago.
In 1977 when I was in eighth grade (age 14), our teacher was going over a lesson, what's polytheism, what's monotheism. And she said, as people become more technologically advanced, they tend to move from polytheism to monotheism. And this might have been repeated a couple of times during my entire twelve year public school career, without harping on it or making a particular big deal about it. But all the same, it's still self-serving propaganda. It's still saying we're better than other people. And it's fine that our teacher speaks her mind and includes some off-the-cuff statements. But it is also a good thing that we think for ourselves and question what we hear.The real question IS how to make it remain Hindu-Buddhist.