Western religions demand submission to God, bended knee and bowed neck. Many Christian saints achieved their canonization by going to great lengths of voluntary suffering. You obey God’s precepts out of dutiful morality and reverence, on penalty of judgment and damnation. Such concepts have contaminated Eastern street religions as well, of course. But so far as Eastern religious philosophy is concerned, one speaks of harmony with the Tao, rather than submitting to the Tao.
This doesn’t detract from the message of the post, but I think it necessary to point out that this is being selective with the evidence when you generalize to “Eastern religious philosophy” in this way. Taoism and Zen are Chinese religion/philosophy, but Chinese culture owes more to the influence of Confucianism and legalism than Taoism or Buddhism (unfortunately, in my view). And both of these more influential philosophies emphasize kowtowing, their cultural equivalent of a “bended knee and bowed neck.”
This doesn’t detract from the message of the post, but I think it necessary to point out that this is being selective with the evidence when you generalize to “Eastern religious philosophy” in this way. Taoism and Zen are Chinese religion/philosophy, but Chinese culture owes more to the influence of Confucianism and legalism than Taoism or Buddhism (unfortunately, in my view). And both of these more influential philosophies emphasize kowtowing, their cultural equivalent of a “bended knee and bowed neck.”