This kind of argument relies entirely on a fictional construct of the West . There certainly is an issue with Western Christianity that tends to reduce faith into some kind of syllogism , an epistemological exercise , but your comment here completely ignores the fact that the greater part of 20 th century Western continental philosophy and theology , and largely continuing to this day , has generally been centred around a merciless criticism of this tendency in favour of the experiential , practice , and the mystical . Even with my own comment you completely ignored the part where I mention a shared Benedictine spirituality as something that is important . Of course there are some general differences . But nevertheless , you people are operating off of a ridiculous narrative of a constructed West and an East that doesn ' t hold up in any rigorous sense . It ' s an empty polemic , and frankly is far more explicitly closer to outright heresy than the most naive ecumenical minimalists .