Hindu hell

[Angrboda]

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.

Buddhists are lucky in that they can appeal to the Kalama sutra, as well as the lack of any holy text, to justify their picking and choosing what to believe.

In response to the people of Kalama, when they asked the Buddha "How do we know what is true, when there are so many teachers, teaching various doctrines and religions, what is true and worthy of practice?" The Buddha responded;

Do not be satisfied with hearsay or with tradition or with legendary lore or with what has come down in scriptures or with conjecture or with logical inference or with weighing evidence or with liking for a view after pondering over it or with someone else's conclusions or with the thought "this man is our teacher". When you know in yourselves: "These things are wholesome, blameless, commended by the wise, and being adopted and put into effect they lead to welfare and happiness, then you should practice and abide in them..."