Friday, July 15, 2011

BUDDHISM IS A MUCH BETTER RELIGION THAN CHRISTIANITY,DO YOU AGREE?

While I love Buddhism, I think this is the wrong approach ("My religion is better than your religion.!"). A Christian saint and a Buddhist arahant are both people who have followed their religions carefully, diligently, and with great effort, and have become exemplary human beings embodying admirable human qualities. Traditional Christianity has deep, esoteric transformative practices akin to those found in Buddhism. Both teach high morality, compassion, kindness, mindfulness, wisdom, and so on. The difference is that Christians and Muslims are usually exclusivist and expansionist, so in some respects (tolerance, lack-of-dogmatism, etc), you're right. Buddhism is better. And Buddhism can accommodate atheists and skeptics, whereas theistic religions generally can't.

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