RE: Jesus vs. Buddha vs. Socrates
September 21, 2013 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2013 at 1:00 pm by Beta Ray Bill.)
I knew the size of this post would scare people away from it, but I thought it important to show that Jesus' sayings were more religious rules than guidelines for personal growth. I didn't pick what I thought were easily down-playable Jesus quotes, I took them from a couple Christian's top ten lists, and chose the five I thought were honestly the best. But they still can't stand up to Buddha or Socrates. I believe it's more important to live life to the fullest, not just prepare yourself for some sort of unproven afterlife.
And Minimalist, thanks for your quotes. They are easily applicable to the concept that early Christian writers, who really had little understanding of the man that lived decades before them, just copied the OT and Greek religion to piece together their implausible religious ideas.
And I didn't get them from the internet, I read books. (Okay, I got Socrates from the internet.)
And Minimalist, thanks for your quotes. They are easily applicable to the concept that early Christian writers, who really had little understanding of the man that lived decades before them, just copied the OT and Greek religion to piece together their implausible religious ideas.
And I didn't get them from the internet, I read books. (Okay, I got Socrates from the internet.)
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
