(November 27, 2016 at 10:19 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Buddhist celibacy doesn't seem particularly onerous or difficult to me . . .
Me either
But that's the first I'm hearing of that ignorant belief. Basically I think the message here - as if I didn't already know 
- is that religion sucks... all religion. So fuck Buddhism as a religion. I'm still interested in it as a demonstrable philosophy, to the extent that it is, but fuck it as a religion. So as much as I've taken comfort from the knowledge that in this world of stubborn religiosity at least one wise and introspective religion has flourished and probably has greater numbers even than Christianity, that's actually a load of bollocks really isn't it if it's not practiced the way it was originally intended and has just gone the way of all religions... towards a million different schisms with a million different arbitrary beliefs. So all I can really take heart in is not the presence of Buddhism in the world, but just what the Buddha actually taught.
