RE: Don't you just love the hypocrisy of religion.
July 13, 2017 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2017 at 2:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 13, 2017 at 1:51 pm)Dropship Wrote: Fake Messiah quote- some scribes couldn't resist the temptation of gratuitous insertions to bring adornments to their texts..
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Prove it..
And what about Buddhist scriptures, have they all been messed about with too?
Yup. It's pretty much a rule than even if something survives some period of time intact, as soon as enough people take notice to consider something authoritative, Some People™ will spring up to control that fountain of authority.
Buddhism is a syncretic religion -everywhere- it's been practiced...that changes as often as it's made it's way from town to town and year by year depending on local traditions and authority structures. It couldn't have been so successful in asia had it not adapted itself, through the work of a great many people telling a great many fanciful stories to adorn their diety and all of the rest with whatever local trappings might entice the local populace.
In an amusing reversal of fortune, many of these things were -scrubbed- (leaving buddhist principles hanging without their foundations) from buddhism, including the bit about deities, as a marketing strategy specific to western buddhists in a primarily secular and non-superstitious demographic. A cynic might tie this trend to the hostilities between china and tibet and their need of external..and specifically US, support in that disagreement, reducing the dalai lamas status and lifelong ambition of hoodwinking the shit out of anyone who might listen to him to the position of a PR hack. Otherwise, he seems like a nice guy, lol.
The "messing with" is not only endemic to the religion..it continues to this day.
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