(December 21, 2018 at 3:21 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(December 21, 2018 at 2:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Buddhism doesn't get a pass from me either.
"Getting closer to that standard"
Unfortunately that striving for a "higher standard" is the very thing that causes division in our species when it comes to religion.
If one can accept there are good people in every religion, that says to me that the "standard" isn't in a label, not even in Buddhism. Asia's entire history all the way back to antiquity has also never been 100% violence free.
Humans are doing it, both good and bad, labels have no magic powers. Asia also has prisons too.
Yes indeed. Those hoards of warrior Buddhist monks .. they were so fierce.
How much division in our species has been caused by people with a bug up their ass, demanding their definition is the right one ?. That religion.
If I was excluding the word "atheist" you'd have a case. But show me where in this thread I ever claimed that atheists should "practice" being atheists. Not even that is a "practice" it is a mere position on one claim. Not even that word "atheist" should be seen as a "practice".
You are either a good person, or you are not. There is nothing to "practice" as far as avoiding harm to others. Labels do not have magic powers to cause someone to only do good.
You follow a religion. But there is no "practice" to be had in knowing humans are all capable of both doing good and bad.
