Money-Loving People or God-Loving People
Calling a name of a god or a deity in Buddhism is recommended in Chinse Taoism to avoid tribulation and calamity. And, some schools of Japanese Buddhism also put it in the core of their teachings almost 800 yeas ago.
It was impossible for farmers and ordinary people to learn and understand sophisticated teaching of Buddhism. But people needed help in their difficult life. So, some leading monks launched their schools based on the principle that every body could be saved by simply calling the name of the Buddha or other prominent deity in Buddhism. "You only have to call the name of the Buddha or the holy title of a deity with full belief in him." they taught. This teaching prevailed since then to date.
Nianfo (pinyin: niànfó, Japanese: nenbutsu,...Vietnamese: niệm Phật) is a term commonly seen in Pure Land Buddhism. In the context of Pure Land practice, it generally refers to the repetition of the name of Amitābha. It is a translation of Sanskrit buddhānusmṛti (or, "recollection of the Buddha")...
In the Jodo Shinshu tradition in Japan, variant forms of the nianfo have been used since its inception. The founder, Shinran, used a nine-character Kujimyōgō in the Shoshinge and the Sanamidabutsuge hymns...
The term nembutsu-ban is applied to the event in Kyoto, Japan in 1207 where Hōnen and his followers were banned from the city and forced into exile. This occurred when the leaders of older schools of Buddhism persuaded the civil authorities to prohibit the newer practices including the recitation of Namu Amida Butsu. The ban was lifted in 1211.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nianfo)
When Christ Jesus started His mission 2000 years ago, He mostly faced and preached poor people who could not read and write. And what He taught them was not sophisticated theories of Judaism or Christianity or theological issues, although it was not recommendation to call the names of the God, holy prophets, and other angels.
Teaching a simple method for practicing religion to poor and simple people is a basic for missionary work. So, Japanese monks who became the founders of some schools of Japanese Buddhism told people to just call the names of the Buddha and other deities or recite holy short words such as Namu Amida Butsu.
However, Christ Jesus did not even teach so. He taught simple truth any one could not forget such as ”No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
If you are taught to love the God and hate money, you would surely not forget it, even though you might deny it.
Even evil ones would call the name of the God, if not Satan, when they are in a critical situation. Some schools of Japanese Buddhism taught that such an evil one could be saved only if he called the name of the Buddha or cited Buddhist invocation. But Christ Jesus taught to remember His teaching and act accordingly, since His teaching was so simple that anyone could remember.
In this context, to defeat corona-viruses, evil ones for men, we have to simply invoke power of immunity the God provided in human bodies for survival of the mankind.
Or, we may call the names of the Buddha and other deities or cite holy phrases to defeat viruses in our bodies. But, even the modern medical science focuses to develop vaccines to suppress viruses by activating the immunity system in the human body. While remembering simple teachings of Christ Jesus, we must be able to reinforce the sophisticated immunity system in our bodies.
The corona-viruses must love money-loving people more than God-loving people.
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Luke 2, King James Version
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)