"This worm is your mother"
October 9, 2020 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2020 at 5:14 pm by Fake Messiah.)
I watched the movie "7 years in Tibet" long time ago, but still sometimes I remember the scene about the worms and I never discussed that scene with anyone so maybe now is the right crowd.
In the scene, Buddhists are digging the hole in the ground, but then they stop because they run into the worms, and they can't continue because, since they believe in reincarnation, they are afraid they will harm the worms who may have been their mother or some other relative in its past life.
But if you believed in reincarnation wouldn't you want to do the opposite with worms and small crawlers? If you saw an ant or a larva of a fly for which you knew was your dead mother reincarnated, wouldn't you want to kill it quickly so it can reincarnate into something better, maybe even into a human?
Anyway, here's the scene
In the scene, Buddhists are digging the hole in the ground, but then they stop because they run into the worms, and they can't continue because, since they believe in reincarnation, they are afraid they will harm the worms who may have been their mother or some other relative in its past life.
But if you believed in reincarnation wouldn't you want to do the opposite with worms and small crawlers? If you saw an ant or a larva of a fly for which you knew was your dead mother reincarnated, wouldn't you want to kill it quickly so it can reincarnate into something better, maybe even into a human?
Anyway, here's the scene
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
