Someone who calls himself "Buddhist" might not really be into "abandoning concerns of life and death"; someone who worships Taoist deities may utterly reject "becoming a god by cultivating the Tao"; and "Confucianism" is often taken as a synonym for "repetition of trite, tired slogans."
但林林總總的宗教，卻也讓人有點迷惑：自稱為「佛教徒」的，往往無意「了脫生死」；崇拜道教神明的，卻壓根兒不信「修道成仙」；至於「儒教」，有人說它是「八股」的代名詞… …。