(November 9, 2013 at 7:41 pm)Ring0 Wrote: Right, I meant to add Catholic as well, will do. Thank you. I've been attending a Buddhist temple to experiment with religion.
I would also like to thank you for the resources.
Let me save you some time. Religion isn't something you "experiment" with. When people say that all they are doing is trying to fill a void, not seek truth. Having a sense of belonging to a community does not mean that what that community centers it's beliefs around is true. The ancient Egyptians built ornate monuments and tombs to their gods and centered their society around the false belief that the sun was a god.
Buddhism isn't special either. There history is just as much full of pretty words and nice motifs as with any culture. And the orient has not been free from war or tribalism in its history either.
It merely means if you fall for it, you merely like it because it appeals to you.
Nothing good or bad in our species history is the invention of a religion, it is merely part of our range of human behavior we have always been capable of. Our evolution has always produced compassion and cruelty and having a religion does not change that.
People are good in spite of religion, not because of it.
I'd seriously suggest you read The God Delusion, . And The New Atheism(scientifically address god belief) and delves, in one chapter into the common motifs of religions of the orient as well.
