Thoughts on Buddhism

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All of your objections could be made by a person of any other faith (including abrahamic faiths, which you managed to smear while defending your own..not that your comments weren't accurate, lets not forget all the fluffy stuff in the abrahamic scriptures too though eh?).

There is no such thing as buddhism without the buddhists. What they do is what buddhism does B. That they did these things in the name of buddhism, from time to time (and yes, I understand that you would mention here that buddhism was being used, exploited, again- also a common christian argument) cannot be waved away as though buddhism had nothing to do with it. Unless you're willing to do the same for christians.

I see basically what you mean by judging the religion by it's follower's actions. I agree that includes all the bad things as well as all the good things done. Yet as far as the Dharma teachings are concerned in writing, especially contrasted to Abrahamic writings, I don't think the violence perpetrated by wayward buddhists is justified or supported in any rational way by the "law" or doctrine. The difference with the Bible and the Koran though is that they DO justify and support all kinds of torture and violence against adulterers and infidels and such. So therfore the brainwashing and indoctrination of violence is MUCH easier to institutionalize in these religions compared to Buddhism. So granted, some buddhists are "bad guys" disguised as good guys, but they have to be aware they are going against every tenet of their religion. Yet many Christians actually believe they are doing good when they do evil, intolerant damage to others who don't accept Jesus as their savior.

So, I think Buddhism at least has pure and good intentions first and foremost through and throughout. I honestly do. Yet unfortunatelty abuse and corruption does exist in cases as in almost anything that involves large groups of people. I don't know if I can say the same about the Abrahamic religions having pure intentions first and foremost. "Buddhist wars" pale in comparison to the devastation of Christian crusades, jihads and Western global imperialism by far.