Why does science always upstage God?

[Fake Messiah]

That sounds very generalistic. "Buddhism in theory..." and then you put whatever you want. But if you look at Buddhism in practice, you will see in places like Tibet that people are (were) being oppressed by Buddhist theocracy, and Dalai Lama is a very duplicitous guy.





Or read what Julia Sweeney, who was in a Buddhist country, wrote about Buddhism and you will see that all these Buddhist concepts that Westerners like to romanticize are ugly and oppressive.

I got closer to the monastery. But as I got closer, I could see how young some of the monks were: it's a tradition in places like Tibet and Bhutan that the second son automatically goes into the monastery. Some boys were as young as seven, the Age Of Reason, but hardly an age where someone could make an informed decision about their life purpose. They would get only a religious education; they would never experience a heterosexual relationship, with its particular joys and sorrows, or a family of their own. Instead of being inspired by them, I wanted to free them.
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From there I went to Thailand where I happened to visit a woman who was taking care of a terribly deformed boy who was an orphan. I said to his caretaker, "It's so good of you to be taking care of this poor boy." She said, "Don't say 'poor boy.' He must have done something terrible in a past life to be born like that.

When I came back to L.A., even though there was still a lot about Buddhism that intrigued me, I had to admit, I was less interested. I kept thinking, "The Buddhism we get in California is all cleaned up for us."