RE: What is your favourite positive argument for atheism/unbelief?
April 16, 2017 at 6:06 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2017 at 6:10 pm by Brian37.)
Buddhism is a religion, the fact that some individuals or sects want to call it a philosophy does not cut it. It is a spin off of Hinduism and incorporates Hindu ideas and that religion is far older. And if you have not you should do research on the oldest known Buddhism mythology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(moth...he_Buddha) Concepts of heaven too.
Cure to human suffering?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
Cure to misogyny maybe?
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4021...f-buddhism
Even this following article talks about "spirituality" and "nirvana" and "past lives".
http://www.ushistory.org/civ/8d.asp
There is no such thing as going through one's life never suffering at all, it is physically impossible so there is no such thing as "nirvana". And there is absolutely no scientific evidence that your cognition was a different life form prior or will become another life form in the future. But to claim no Buddhist believes those things is not true. Even in parts of Asia you have individuals and sects that believe in evil spirits and the word for them are "nats".
Now after you read all that and view the video you are going to come back with "well they aren't doing it right" or "they don't have the right "philosophy". The fact there are so many sub sects and different majority nations says everything about the RELIGION being no different than any other. Buddhism has overlap with Hinduism, and funny that, Asia is right next to India.
https://sites.google.com/a/cbmsonline.ne...d-hinduism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(moth...he_Buddha) Concepts of heaven too.
Cure to human suffering?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
Cure to misogyny maybe?
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4021...f-buddhism
Even this following article talks about "spirituality" and "nirvana" and "past lives".
http://www.ushistory.org/civ/8d.asp
There is no such thing as going through one's life never suffering at all, it is physically impossible so there is no such thing as "nirvana". And there is absolutely no scientific evidence that your cognition was a different life form prior or will become another life form in the future. But to claim no Buddhist believes those things is not true. Even in parts of Asia you have individuals and sects that believe in evil spirits and the word for them are "nats".
Now after you read all that and view the video you are going to come back with "well they aren't doing it right" or "they don't have the right "philosophy". The fact there are so many sub sects and different majority nations says everything about the RELIGION being no different than any other. Buddhism has overlap with Hinduism, and funny that, Asia is right next to India.
https://sites.google.com/a/cbmsonline.ne...d-hinduism
