RE: Encounter with a Hindu preacher
May 17, 2012 at 6:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2012 at 6:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
My experience with buddhist monks (related to hinduism) is they may not be quite as revoltingly upfront as christian morons when they don't know exactly where you stand. But some of them can be every bit as fervent, unscrupulous and aggresively proselytizing as your christian moron if for some reason they perceive you to be even slightly receptive to them. They certainly make no bones about wanting to, in effect, poach souls from competing religions like christianity.
Some of them exihibit a ignorance of science coupled with a wonton greed to misuse it for their proselytizing goals in a way that would do the likes of Wordork or Alter2ego proud.
I met one monk who expelled a huge pile of pseudoscience crap about how buddhist meditation give you access to high truth. When I asked whether he was attempting (unssuccessfully) to put buddhist tradition of meditation on some scientific footing, his answer was refreshingly honest. He said in effect he didn't believe science. He only believed in the wisdom of the living buddha (head of his buddhist sect). But since I seemed to him to respect science, he would use science as tool to bring to on to the true path of wisdom.
Some of them exihibit a ignorance of science coupled with a wonton greed to misuse it for their proselytizing goals in a way that would do the likes of Wordork or Alter2ego proud.
I met one monk who expelled a huge pile of pseudoscience crap about how buddhist meditation give you access to high truth. When I asked whether he was attempting (unssuccessfully) to put buddhist tradition of meditation on some scientific footing, his answer was refreshingly honest. He said in effect he didn't believe science. He only believed in the wisdom of the living buddha (head of his buddhist sect). But since I seemed to him to respect science, he would use science as tool to bring to on to the true path of wisdom.
