Buddhism Or Christianity
Buddhism The Religon That love
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Christianity full of hate
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Just because the people believing in the religion are full of hate, doesn't mean the religion itself is full of hate. There is a lot of prejudice among christians. I think buddhism is the better religion, although I don't know too much about it. I know that they are very free spirited, and stuff like that - but I also know that in the countries where buddhism is, women aren't treated that equally to men, but on the otherhand so weren't all other countries a century ago, so I guess they're just slower than the rest of us. Side: Buddhism The Religon That love
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#1. Buddhism is an Atheist religion, it has no god. #2. Buddhism don't kill other people to see who has the better imaginary friend. #3. Buddhism is older. #4. Buddha didn't sacrifice himself so millions can be murdered, he gave up his riches so he can help millions. #5. Finally Buddhism accepts all people, last time I checked, God is Homophobic. It's a sin for two Humans to have sex and love. Side: Buddhism The Religon That love
#1. Buddhism is an Atheist religion, it has no god. That doesn't necessarily make it good. If they still have a lot of spiritual stuff it is possible to act poorly. Not saying that is the case, just that eliminating God isn't perfect. #2. Buddhism don't kill other people to see who has the better imaginary friend. Motive for killing is hardly a reason to condemn someone. If they kill over spiritual beliefs, but not imaginary friend, they are no better. #3. Buddhism is older. Usually indicates something is worse. #4. Buddha didn't sacrifice himself so millions can be murdered, he gave up his riches so he can help millions. Neither did Jesus. #5. Finally Buddhism accepts all people, last time I checked, God is Homophobic. It's a sin for two Humans to have sex and love. I don't think this is fully accurate. But, pretty close. Side: Buddhism The Religon That love
#1 Why is something intrinsically bad if it involves belief in a God? #2 This might be a reasonable point if Christians were killing people of different religions simply for having a different religion. Religion is an excuse for killing other people, it's not the cause. Admittedly, murder caused by religion probably happens sometimes, but it's obviously a lot more rarely than it's made out to be. Among a thousand Christian murderers, how many do you expect are murderers simply because they disliked a person? How many do you expect to be killers because they believe God told them to do it? #3 Egyptian mythology is even older. Also why not use walkmans instead of iPods simply because they are older? #4 Yet he decided he wanted to eat bad food resulting in his certain death instead of continuing teaching people. He was also a spoiled brat who left his wife and kid so that he could almost starve himself to death. 5# Buddhism does have some history with discrimination of women. In general though Buddhism is a lot less discriminatory than Christianity. No religion is perfect, but Buddhism is probably a lot better in this regard than most other religions. Side: Christianity full of hate
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I can get behind this. HOWEVER. #1. Buddhism is an Atheist religion, it has no god. Erhrm. Mahayana Buddhism. Granted you may have been referring to Theravada and that's totally okay, but Mahayana Buddhism places belief in countless Bodhisattvas, who come close to nirvana and the shattering of the cycle of rebirth, but step back from it so that they may help others achieve enlightenment. (Often, it's believed that they retain their memories of previous lives because forgetting everything you did to become a bodhisattva completely defeats the purpose lol) #2. Buddhism don't kill other people to see who has the better imaginary friend. Not that I'm aware of. Most of the time it's the Buddhists who get scoffed/killed/etc whatever. The Khmer Rouge almost wiped out the Buddhists in Cambodia I believe? Mao Zedong (gloriously misspelled?) wasn't the friendliest to them either. #3. Buddhism is older. Not the best argument for "This is better". Judaism is older than Christianity and... urm... Leviticus. Christians have stated that they dropped the fabric-blending, shellfish/pork eating, sabbath-keeping, etc laws, so... #4. Buddha didn't sacrifice himself so millions can be murdered, he gave up his riches so he can help millions. That wasn't Jesus' intent in the first place. I will bet money that when Jesus returns (if in physical form that is the same as the one that he left in) he will take ONE look. Mind you, ONE SINGLE LOOK at Christianity today and go, "Whoa, what have YOU GUYS been doing?!" -Also, Buddha did "sacrifice" himself in the sense that he sacrificed Siddharta Gautama, relinquishing material riches in favor of spiritual contemplation, then he went and taught people what he discovered. Finally Buddhism accepts all people, last time I checked, God is Homophobic. It's a sin for two Humans to have sex and love. This is a flawed argument altogether. Buddhists are generally an all-inclusive bunch, however they are strict with things like chastity, sexuality, etc. Marriage isn't even a sacrament to them, but a monk will show up at a Buddhist wedding out of kindess however. -The REAL God is not a homophobe. No all-loving being promises unconditional love and acceptance and then takes the offer back because of a factor that one can't control. And to those who are going to say "Well he is all loving, he loves gays but they have to turn away from the sin an-yadayada"... that's like saying "Accept this help you don't need because I don't agree with your lifestyle". That's not love. That's being a faux-benevolent dick... -It is not a sin for humans to love one another because that's the basis of true, unadulterated Christianity. Christianity today (coughcatholicscoughcough) just demonizes sexuality in all areas outside of vanilla MxF. While I don't necessarily approve of the majority of fetishes/paraphilias including BDSM... seriously guys? Bottling up sexuality -> Pervy Priests. Ahem, we had a scandal about that a few years ago if I am not mistaken? I am new to this site, this is my VERY FIRST argument. Be gentle with me if I get a few things wrong here and there xD Side: Buddhism The Religon That love
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Also, you obviously haven't researched what happened in India when the Buddhists took government or in Sri Lanka where Buddhists still lead after a long ass civil bloodbath. Buddhists are vicious as fuck. Need I mention that WWII included a lot of Buddhists in it too or are we going to pretend that it was called European War II? Side: Christianity full of hate
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