Hindu hell

[Duty]

Wandering the earth for millennia as a "hungry ghost" famished is one punishment for killing bugs etc according to the Buddhism of Gesha Kelsang Gyatso. And to think this Buddhism is practised and promoted by many so-called middle-class intellectuals in the UK. Sad.

You gotta admit, followers of such belief are really brave people. It's a pure mind torture to believe in such stuff.

My mother had an interest in Buddhism once, and said her teacher had told her to cherry pick what seems useful and disregard the rest. Pretty enlightened (NPI) for a religious instructor, given that's how all but a few adherents deal with religion. Many are driven literally insane by the concept of torture in the afterlife (especially Xtian/Muslim hell, which is commonly thought of as being infinite agony) and I'm not sure I would call these people brave. Indoctrinated, yes. Far braver to publically deny the veracity of such doctrine based on, well, having a grip on reality RE there being no evidence for such things other than words written and told by human beings. Stephen King's IT was invented by a human too, and is VERY popular, but I doubt anybody who believed in infanticidal sewer-dwelling clown monsters would ever be termed brave. Also, believing is not a choice and so cannot be termed brave. We merely believe what we perceive to be the truth.