There is no "I" in "You"

[The Grand Nudger]

Bertrand Russell didn't think the Buddha's philosophy was silly. You do. Whatever.

.............? Well, if Betrand Russel thought is was awesome...it must be, I retract everything I've said.

There actually is no controversy over whether Christianity is a religion or a philosophy. It's acknowledged to be a religion, by everyone. Period.

As is buddhism.  Though plenty of buddhists will tell you it isn't, or that it's a religion -of- philosophy.

What eastern philosophical tradition did I trample on when I buggered karma? Be specific. Like I said, there's a difference between eastern philosophy and eastern religion.

Hinduism and Buddhism...for starters, and that covers alot of eastern philosophy.  You've separated the two because you would do so with western philosophy and western religion.....but the context and reality of those eastern traditions was and -is- different than the context of our western traditions (and that's ignoring that such a separation might not even be representative in western traditions). Remarkably appropriate to the thread, some westerners will tell you that religions have gods, -that's how you know they're religions...and then we simply point to buddhism to show that the rules or separations that -might- apply to western traditions do not always apply to eastern tradition...and ofc that's to be expected.

Finally, if you want to separate people from the traditions they are associated with, go ahead. I really don't care whether we parse it out as eastern philosophical traditions or the thoughts of people who were raised east of the Euphrates.

Jesus christ Gem, I'm not separating them from their traditions, you are conflating peoples contributions to science as saying something informative about the traditions to which -you- would attach them.  Attach them to their traditions, have at it.  Then I'll show you how they -did science-...not buddhism, for example, and -that's- what I'm separating.