RE: I'm an atheist but I quite like Buddism...
December 26, 2014 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2014 at 9:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 25, 2014 at 10:28 pm)Elskidor Wrote: Ya know, I don't really know shit about the religion either, but it's always seemed more like a peaceful spirituality to me rather than a dogmatic organized religion.Because you've been sold a product specifically catered to your western sensibilities. A brand of buddhism, if you will.
Quote: I don't really understand some of the hatred I've seen a few hear give it, but if it works for you then go for it.More irritation, on my end, than hatred. They have largely avoided the sort of brutal scrutiny applied by centuries of experience with the faiths in our familiar orbits. A portion of that has been careful PR. The history of buddhism, as a faith -and relative to the people who hold it- is unremarkable. They've had their violent insurrections and sectarian blood feuds. Buddhism has had a theocratic state and it was as brutally repressive as any of it's peers.
Ultimately, though, as I said..this is unremarkable....it's the perception - sold by buddhism and buddhists..and perpetuated by the fringe and the new age and people "open" to this or that, aided by our obsession with the east (going back centuries)that somehow: buddhism is different.
It isn't.
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