Loving God More Than Your Family & Spouse

[miaharun]

In war torn theocracies, virtually everyone is religious, so there's no fair comparison. The people who do bad things there are going to be religious.

Speculating that if they were all Buddhist things would be different is pretty pointless and probably naive. Religion isn't going to be the sole reason for all the unrest.

Outside of such places, judging the whole of religion by the extremists isn't fair.

Now I'm defending fucking religion, what's going on? Religion is shit and I think everyone would be better off without it. But I'm not going to say that replacing it with a different load of nonsense would suddenly make it all OK.

And again, I don't know what your point is, because we're talking about different types of indoctrination. Not personal choices. People can't choose to suddenly believe Buddhist stuff and abandon Christianity because someone tells them they'd be better off. I assume you claim to really believe this Buddhist stuff, not just play at believing because you think it makes you a better person.

Sir , I will never ask anyone to abandon their belief. Just because I believe in something doesn't mean everyone else has to. Buddhist never try to convert people. It's not a cult. There is no religious leader. It's a philosophy.

Classic example, if a Catholic woman marries a Buddhist man the church will always try to convert the man and the church wedding is compulsory. And ask the man if he is willing to give the children to the church etc. If you go to a Buddhist temple to discuss the marriage a monk would say "It is not my place to discuss your marriage"