Poll: Christianity and Buddhism

[mrdevious]

um.... I think you misread what I wrote JackdaWack. I was saying, from what I studied, that confucianism doesn't go deep enough for my taste, not Taoism.

mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on 04-23-2007. Poll: Christianity and Buddhism I've noticed that amongst my stoner friends, that they tend to accept the ideas of Buddhism over those of Christianity, even though they don't claim either religion. I would like to see if this apllies to the stoner community at large. I myself do not claim any religion. So which do you prefer? Rating: 5

[Kid Dynamite]

I also have no religion. I am an atheist. However, I would choose Buddhism over Christianity any day. It is possible to interpret Buddhism in a non-dogmatic, non-supernatural, rational manner, and I think taken as a general philosophy and not a religion, it can teach a lot about how to lead a fulfilling life.

Christianity, on the other hand, doesn't have a whole lot of that, which is evident from reading its holy book. The Bible endorses, among other things, slavery, sexism, murdering gay people, authoritarianism, infanticide, rape, and ritual animal sacrifice. I could not in good conscience subscribe to a doctrine that holds such a horrible piece of literature to be sacred. All I can say is that it is fortunate that most Christians do not read their Bible and those who are aware of its atrocities generally ignore those bits. It is most definitely not anything close to a reliable guide to morality.

Even the bits that are touted out as the "good bits", i.e. the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, don't really strike me as very deep pieces of wisdom. In fact, there are many flaws with them. The Ten Commandments, for example, urge us not to make graven images of anything that is in the water under the earth. What's so wrong about making graven images of microorganisms in our ground water? And the Sermon on the Mount urges us to be completely passive in the face of evil; that's such a horrible piece of advice that I don't even know where to begin. Just thank goodness enough Christians were able to ignore the Sermon on the Mount so we could bring Hitler down.

Dude, you keep posting absolute bollocks about the Bible, i think people are honestly getting sick of correcting you. I understand that you might not agree with the Bible but at least have the decency to try and understand the Christian faith and proper usage of the Bible before criticising it.

Im sorry if im coming on strong here but you seem to strike me as one of those people who opposes fundamental organised religion, so insists on trying to tear down the Bible every chance you get. It just makes me angry that all these armchair theologians think they can "prove the bible wrong" and that pointing out a flaw means the whole thing is totally wrong.

I mean you strike me as a smart bloke but i really dont think you know what your on about. You moan about Christians picking and choosing the good bits of the Bible, but you yourself pick and choose the bad bits to try and discredit it. Guess what? Theologians and Philosophers have dedicated their lives to diving the truth from holy scripture. You can't make a be all and end all after reading a few sites on the web, it's just not possible.

So by all means give your opinions on the matter (this is a forum after all) but don't try and display that opinion as fact, or you will be called out by those with more knowledge and understanding.


rant over

(p.s look up Godwin's Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...mentioning the Nazis just makes you come across as infantile...

[JackdaWack]

ohhhh sorry my bad, either way the book is really good.

[JackdaWack]

Dude, you keep posting absolute bollocks about the Bible, i think people are honestly getting sick of correcting you. I understand that you might not agree with the Bible but at least have the decency to try and understand the Christian faith and proper usage of the Bible before criticising it.

Im sorry if im coming on strong here but you seem to strike me as one of those people who opposes fundamental organised religion, so insists on trying to tear down the Bible every chance you get. It just makes me angry that all these armchair theologians think they can "prove the bible wrong" and that pointing out a flaw means the whole thing is totally wrong.

I mean you strike me as a smart bloke but i really dont think you know what your on about. You moan about Christians picking and choosing the good bits of the Bible, but you yourself pick and choose the bad bits to try and discredit it. Guess what? Theologians and Philosophers have dedicated their lives to diving the truth from holy scripture. You can't make a be all and end all after reading a few sites on the web, it's just not possible.

So by all means give your opinions on the matter (this is a forum after all) but don't try and display that opinion as fact, or you will be called out by those with more knowledge and understanding.


rant over

(p.s look up Godwin's Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...mentioning the Nazis just makes you come across as infantile...

You right in what you say, but i have to agree with the other side aswell, the bible does teach alot of BS being the holy book, it should have no bad side to it, although it does, And almost every book with in the bible takes on the writers perspective from how he wants it interpreted. Unfortunatly people do pick and choose parts of the bible, but if your going to say this holy book is the book of god, then u must accept all parts of it good and bad. Wich is why i dont agree with it, becuase in some instances it is extremely biased to those people whom dont believe, wich in gods so called view, means nothing because were all supposed to love eachother believer or non-believer.

[krazy chino]

JACK listen man one day on ur spare time smoke a bowl and READ THE BIBLE cuz it seems like you dont know much about it

[JackdaWack]

JACK listen man one day on ur spare time smoke a bowl and READ THE BIBLE cuz it seems like you dont know much about it

try 12 years in catholic school, and i have a written papers on about 90% of the books in the bible. Just because im against it doesn't mean i know nothing about it, and i mean have u read the bible?

[Kid Dynamite]

You right in what you say, but i have to agree with the other side aswell, the bible does teach alot of BS being the holy book, it should have no bad side to it, although it does, And almost every book with in the bible takes on the writers perspective from how he wants it interpreted. Unfortunatly people do pick and choose parts of the bible, but if your going to say this holy book is the book of god, then u must accept all parts of it good and bad. Wich is why i dont agree with it, becuase in some instances it is extremely biased to those people whom dont believe, wich in gods so called view, means nothing because were all supposed to love eachother believer or non-believer.

True true there is a whole lot of BS in the Bible...but it's not an instruction manual, your not supposed to be able to follow it to the letter. It's morelike a guidebook...read it, then decide what to do yourself.

And by no means would i suggest that the Bible is the Book of God...no-one pretends that God dictated the Bible like Muslims say Allah dictated the Ko'ran...so of course the authors may've made some mistakes...theyre only human after all :thumbsup:

[JackdaWack]

I just dont understand how people can read a book in the bible like sodomy and sit there telling me thats right.. the book does bring up important facts and beliefs in the religion but people miss the broader picture and pick out small details and go on rants how homosexuality is evil, when the real point to the story was the town itself, and the sense of evil the people possessed.

[krazy chino]

i don't see nothing wrong with the bible only the fact that people criticize it.........for example everyone belived the dumbass that said the earth was flat but nobody paid attention to the book of isaiah that said the earth was round way before that

[Xhoshi]

I believe that the Bible has very good points. Its just that ppl have been interpreting it and living it out wrong for ages. Like Gandhi said, "If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian."