Another reason Buddhism doesn't get a pass.

[Brian37]

So why the attack on Buddhism? Because it is also part of one species, one planet and one evolution. It should not be blasphemy or ridicule free either. That religion was born from Hinduism and the Vedas. The legend of the first Buddha was also a magical story where the divine told his mother Queen Maya that she would give birth to a baby who would bring wisdom to the world, he too had a birth that avoided the birth canal. And it is a religion to call it anything less is bullshit to me. It too has moral codes and holy people and competing sects and different interpretations. While some are atheists and call it a philosophy, others hold the superstitions of "nats"(spirits) and Karma and reincarnation.

Buddhism is as much a superstition as any other religion stemming from mythology.

Buddhism holds to no dogma. At it's sustaining core there are two demonstrable truths, a counteragent regarding the first two and a final method to free oneself from them...the rest is philosophy and/or window dressing.
Take it as you wish....Buddhism doesn't care.

Bullshit......It is as much a religion and a "dogma" as any other. They have social structures, holy heros, holy writings and holy places and holy monks like any other religion. The are not perfectly unifying as an umbrella label either. A Tibet Buddhist isn't going to agree with a Chinese Buddhist or a Japanese Buddhist. The history of Buddhism has had it's own violence between sects and outsiders, and it also suffers from sexism and bigotry too.

No "philosophy" is a cop out bullshit word to avoid the word "religion" it is a religion. Some people viewing it as philosophy does not negate the fact that ultimately it is still a religion. There are different competing sub sects so you cannot call the entire label a "philosophy". That is just a watered down excuse to avoid the fact Buddhism suffers the same flaws of human interpretation all others suffer from with their competing sub sects.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutio...in_Myanmar

Sexism exists in Buddhism too.

https://vimeo.com/131814486 

Now, don't pull the bullshit all religions pull "not all", "interpretation" or "they aren't practicing it right" . Every fucking religion pulls those excuses....  "Most don't", is a dodge when any religion pulls it. Religion itself is not a cure otherwise there would be no violence at all under any religion, but as shown, there is. That is because RELIGION itself is not a magic pill, no label has magic powers to prevent violence by it's members. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is not in religion, or the bullshit word "philosophy". Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution. 

Every nation friend and foe alike have hospitals and prisons. Buddhism one of many religions but has no special powers anymore than any other religion has special powers. All religions are merely clubs most humans get sold at birth, but no one religion is a cure, not even within the same umbrella label.