tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post441515329434345202..comments2023-08-11T08:06:28.810-07:00Comments on Slobber And Spittle (Archive): In Which I Do Brit Hume's Research For HimCujo359http://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-11954216367605610882010-01-04T12:47:47.412-08:002010-01-04T12:47:47.412-08:00Arguments against Buddhism<a href="http://kwelos.tripod.com/argumentsagainstbuddhism.htm" rel="nofollow"> Arguments against Buddhism </a>Mossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-79691703001170378352010-01-04T04:27:20.809-08:002010-01-04T04:27:20.809-08:00Buddhism itself is older than Christianity, about ...Buddhism itself is older than Christianity, about 2,500 years old at this point. And it's a fuck of a lot better at forgiveness than Christianity is. Something, of course, that Brit Hume wouldn't know, because his kind of Christian only learns enough about other religions to figure out how they can convert their followers to Jesus. It's horribly pathetic.<br /><br />One practice of Zen Buddhism would be useful just now: hitting Brit Hume with a stick... Not that I believe he'd be enlightened, but hey, at least it would make us feel better.Dana Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-74830040147370131572010-01-03T22:37:19.848-08:002010-01-03T22:37:19.848-08:00The trouble is finding anything we can be sure act...The trouble is finding anything we can be sure actually represents what Jesus said/thought. The issues of translation and canon formation (particularly Roman/Byzantine imperial prerogatives that influenced it) are troublesome. <br /><br />Some of these issues did not affect Buddhism to the same degree, but if you go further into studying the branches of the religion, there is a lot of bickering and arguing about what the enlightened Gautama meant. And some of the popular - as opposed to monastic - Buddhist beliefs look as silly to reason as Christianity. <br /><br />More purity of the original message was retained as Buddhism spread from India, but that's because there's no conquering aspect (which is probably more Roman than Jesus teaching). Buddhism is very well suited to enveloping native traditions: Animism in Tibet or Taoism in China (creating Cha'an/Zen). It doesn't negate the local, just posits something higher that the local is a part of.<br /><br />The real similarities start to show up if one looks at the texts and heresies that the Church decided were not canonical. And for that matter the texts that were completely lost until the mid-20th Century. In those a very Buddhist Christ is visible.<br /><br />The last known manifestation (and known mostly through descriptions of it as a heresy) of what i'd call Jesusness was the Cathars. They seem awfully "Buddhist".<br /><br />But what we know is a religion almost entirely co-opted by the State from the beginning. <br /><br />There's also the distinct possibility that Jesus was less enlightened sage and more than a little political revolutionary. (See John Dominic Crossan)Lexhttp://electricworry.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-27522944271111823332010-01-03T22:08:32.745-08:002010-01-03T22:08:32.745-08:00There are similarities between Jesus Christ and Bu...There are similarities between Jesus Christ and Buddha, if you ignore the former's references to supernatural beings and the like. Jesus' admonition to "judge not, lest ye be judged" was a challenge to his followers to do what they believed in before expecting others to. Very wise, I'd say.<br /><br />That last Buddha quotation, though, and other similar ones I found at that site strike me as nothing like Christianity. The idea of using reason and knowledge above belief and worship seems counter to both the words and the practice of Christianity. It's rather striking, coming from a religious text.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-73282240264469950752010-01-03T21:27:15.069-08:002010-01-03T21:27:15.069-08:00Nicely done. Didn't know that Tiger considers ...Nicely done. Didn't know that Tiger considers himself a Buddhist; it would be interesting to know of what school. He's Thai, right? That would suggest Theravada, though possibly something less intellectual like a Pure Land belief.<br /><br />Never mind that though, ask a serious Buddhist and s/he'll tell you that Jesus was a Buddha/Arhat/Bodhisattva (the last makes the most sense).<br /><br />Like Christianity, it is easier to say that you believe than to act like it.Lexhttp://electricworry.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-84796912701974734252010-01-03T19:54:17.810-08:002010-01-03T19:54:17.810-08:00Hi James,
I'm not really trying to enlighten ...Hi James,<br /><br />I'm not really trying to enlighten him. In fact, I didn't even e-mail him. ;-)<br /><br />As Buddha would say: <i>No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.</i>Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-81215073277015160422010-01-03T19:00:53.454-08:002010-01-03T19:00:53.454-08:00And exactly why are you trying to enlighten Brit? ...And exactly why are you trying to enlighten Brit? Come on Cujo359, this is all about the frothing idjit knuckle-draggers being pandered to. This is Fox viewers we're talking about after all. They would know from Buddha if the great Diabatsu of Kamakura were to fall down and crush their pickup trucks. <br /><br />By the way great picture of the big guy. It is even more inspiring in real life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07881103048419383597noreply@blogger.com