Current Events > Out of all religions, Buddhism is the one that makes more sense to me.

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What about you?

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Something about committing hate crimes against Muslims doesn't really resonate with me too much but I guess to each their own :\

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No it doesn't.

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Hexenherz posted...

Something about committing hate crimes against Muslims doesn't really resonate with me too much but I guess to each their own :\

Show me a major religion that doesn't commit hate crimes, and I'll show you a celestial ponzi scheme.

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Same. There's a lot of it I don't understand or necessarily agree with. But there's also a lot of practices in it that appeal to me and can be useful regardless of any "faith" or belief in the more mythical stuff.

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Talos becoming the ninth divine makes most sense to me.

StarDestroyer posted...

Talos becoming the ninth divine makes most sense to me.

Talos was only ever a man.

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

Which version? If you're thinking the theistic one, why? Also, how do you know which religion makes the most sense in TCs eyes?

Based on his history I'm assuming this topic is a giant shitpost.

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Vanilla Buddhism is more of a philosophy than a religion. You can strip all the supernatural addons and you just have the core ideas from Siddhartha Gautama

Out of all religions, [most popular religion in China] is the one that makes the most sense to [wumao poster]

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I think Buddhism is also one of the religions that espouse a truth that is most compatible with what we know about the universe.

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Discordianism is the only truth tbh

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i don't recall where i was but i remember a muslim guy and buddist guy getting into it once. the muslim guy was like "you worship a statue" and the buddhist guy was like "at least the statue exists" i think it was in college cafeteria. i dont get it. just let people do what they want.

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I agree TC. As an atheist.

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tao is just the way things are

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Daoism

I don't know much about Buddhism to really say tbh. From the little I do know, it seems more philosophical than most religions (abrahamic religions mainly)

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I can agree

Christianity - there's a mystic man in the sky who is protecting/judging/condemning you based on how you live and if you get an A+ you can chill with him for eternity. If not, fuck you burn forever asshole. How do to get an a+? By hating gay people and pregnant teens.

Buddhism- We're locked in a cycle of rebirth until we realize that our attachments keep is here and are the cause of suffering. Letting these go we can finally be free. Don't want to let go? No worries, you got tons of lives to do it.

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Xavier_On_High posted...

Show me a major religion that doesn't commit hate crimes, and I'll show you a celestial ponzi scheme.

Sikhism

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Hexenherz posted...

Discordianism is the only truth tbh

Hail Eris!

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

Course, this isn't really Christianity, either.

Ok, there's a mystic man in the sky and his dead ass son

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

Also incorrect. There are no men in the sky. The bible never claims that.

Ok there's a mystic man in your ass

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Daoism and Buddhism.

Bahai makes the most sense from the monotheistic religions

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

Too bad for that Muslim guy in particular since Buddhists don't worship statues.

Common mistake though. People are similar with thinking catholics worship Mary. Muslims in particular hate "idolatry " and are very suspicious of other religions cause of it

JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

Ah. Fair enough. I know nothing of that.

Ask him what he thinks of Uyghurs

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This is a post I saved on Reddit from a long while back, but it pretty much sums up my thoughts:

Don't make the naive mistake of romanticizing "eastern" religion.

Monotheist god or no, Buddhism is full of spirits, demons, godlings, or whatever you want to call the "evil spirits" in Buddhist hell. It is not "atheistic."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities

Its conclusions are based on the same magical thinking as any religion, and its followers can be just as wacky and extreme, even to murder for religion (Myanmar).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking

People in "the west" idolize this "not a religion" religion because they have no direct experience with it and its just as fundy and flaky followers, and all the other negative baggage that any western religion has.

Yes, there is proselytism too. The newer sects have the same door-to-door routine as JWs, and use entrapment tactics where they invite you to dinner or something (always outnumbering you) without telling you that halfway through the meal they are going to pull out pamphlets and make their sales pitches. Old sects make money from being one of the few places you can have a grave, which is expensive.

If you want a non-supernatural religion, I think you don't know what religion is. Gods are irrelevant; they are a product of that world view. Magical/wishful thinking (or "faith") is the defining characteristic.

As a whole? It's wholly made-up viral nonsense just like any other magical thinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Buddhism

Yes, there is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Buddhism

but it only exists as an attempt at "safe religion" by wannabe atheists who really miss their magic, because the wishful thinking is still all there. You may disagree, that's fine, but in my 30+ years in Japan, I have never seen a Buddhist sect without its supernatural trappings or a Buddhist who doesn't believe in the afterlife/reincarnation and spirits. Zen is not free from this magical thinking either.

It is my humble opinion that if you are atheist solely because you do not believe in gods you are missing the point. Yes, that is "what is in the dictionary," but is the worship of a god the only criticism you have of religion? If so, fine, I suppose. But isn't that just a minor technicality? Why is a deva OK but a god not?

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Buddhism IS atheistic. All the supernatural stuff is DLC that you don't need. The original teachings were atheist. Then people added on useless shit. At its core its not a religion

Zikten posted...

Buddhism IS atheistic. All the supernatural stuff is DLC that you don't need. The original teachings were atheist. Then people added on useless shit. At its core its not a religion

The original teachings were literally a spinoff Hinduism.

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Amitabha

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Buddhism is 1000% a religion, dont be ridiculous. Like all religions, it has strong points and extremists and grifters.
Confucianism isnt much of a religion though!

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ElatedVenusaur posted...

Buddhism is 1000% a religion, dont be ridiculous. Like all religions, it has strong points and extremists and grifters.
Confucianism isnt much of a religion though!

Confucianism isn't a religion at all it's a moral philosophy. Mostly about how to be a "gentleman"

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Buddhism makes relatively little sense. If you wanted to pick a religion with relatively little religion, you could probably do better.

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(Some) Asian countries do worship buddhist deities but at the core of buddhism is some good ass knowledge/wisdom/psychology.

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Zeus posted...

Buddhism makes relatively little sense. If you wanted to pick a religion with relatively little religion, you could probably do better.

Makes more sense than God needing to let himself die so that he can forgive humanity for eating a fruit

Zikten posted...

Makes more sense than God needing to let himself die so that he can forgive humanity for eating a fruit

Have you considered that you think this because you've grown up in a Christian society where you've gotten to the point of reducing it to such parody, and conversely you know pretty much nothing about buddhism other than a couple of wikipedia paragraphs you read?

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I think the cycle of rebirth is kinda true, when we die all of what makes us returns to nature and helps create new life.

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Hexenherz posted...

Something about committing hate crimes against Muslims doesn't really resonate with me too much but I guess to each their own :\

lmao show me a real religion that hasn't attempted genocide against another religion in the past

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christianity 5eva

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KneeOnBest posted...

lmao show me a real religion that hasn't attempted genocide against another religion in the past

never suggested this, just really saying i'm not a fan of religion in general

unless it's hailing eris through the consumption of hot dogs and recreational onanism.

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StarDestroyer posted...

Talos becoming the ninth divine makes most sense to me.

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I think all religions contain some truths in them and that God has a relationship with all souls.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

lmao

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