Is Zen a religion?

[Obukan_dude]

Some people would even say that Christianity and other Middle-Eastern faiths have their origins in Greek, Babylonian, and Sumerian myths.
I have to ask myself the question of, as noble as traditions as they can be, does it really matter from where or from whom these writings came from?

I also ask myself, Which is of real importance, the teacher and his books, or the lessons being taught? Then of this, I ask, which is also more important: The lessons which are taught, or the path itself for which the lessons are trying to aid the user in navigating?

lastly, at what point do we take all that we have learned on the path of the journey, and cease to be led by others who have pointed the way for us, and then begin leading ourselves?

Well said, er, typed.
And I would like to throw out a plea that this thread be locked, please.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Wish granted.