(December 30, 2015 at 8:47 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: There is much wisdom into the nature of consciousness and other such things in buddhism, though. We shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Nobody should force anything out of existence no. But pretty stories exist in all religions, that does not make humans civil. If anything humans will kill to protect those kind motifs because they call it religion as soon as you question the story.
If religions were treated like literature and not the political entities they are, certainly one could be more appreciative of the kind ideas in all religions. What spoils those kind words is that they are wrapped in metaphor but some people don't take them as just that and even without the superstitions that are in all religions, it still amounts to group think if not the entire religion, group think between the different sects within that religion, and against outside groups.
