RE: What God's justification for eternal torment?
December 7, 2020 at 12:57 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2020 at 12:57 am by Fake Messiah.)
(December 6, 2020 at 7:50 pm)SuicideCommando01 Wrote:(December 1, 2020 at 9:40 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: God's justification? Christians don't need justification from god when it comes to punishment. If their imaginary buddy treats them like shit, they are trained to endure it with a smile on their face. As are Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims.
I thought Buddhists don't believe in a god?
I guess it depends on which denomination of buddhism you are talking about. For instance, Mahayana buddhism believes in God. From wikipedia:
Quote:According to Paul Williams, for the Mahāyāna, a Buddha is often seen as "a spiritual king, relating to and caring for the world", rather than simply a teacher who after his death "has completely ‘gone beyond’ the world and its cares".
Dr. Guang Xing describes the Mahāyāna Buddha as "an omnipotent divinity endowed with numerous supernatural attributes and qualities ...[He] is described almost as an omnipotent and almighty godhead."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana
And also, what are we to make of all those Buddhist deities?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
