Kerensa
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Honestly... the number of replies on here essentially saying "burn them, it's a false religion, you don't want to help lead people to hell" is pretty worrying. That attitude can do far more to put earnest seekers OFF Christianity than any number of books about Buddhism or other teachings could. I'm serious. If that was truly what Christianity was about — striving to silence and destroy every other religious teaching on earth on the grounds that "we're right and everything else is of Satan" — I for one wouldn't be a Christian. It was partly that mentality among some Christians (fortunately not the majority, as I eventually realised) that turned me completely off Christianity for years. I doubt I'm the only one that has happened to.
And you know, if you stop and think about it logically... if someone is interested in Buddhism — considering taking it up, or needing to research it academically, or anything in between — then if they don't find your particular books, they'll find others, or else look it up online. Burning or else destroying your handful of Buddhist books won't get rid of Buddhism. It won't stop people out there from being drawn to Buddhism. (It might even have the opposite effect, like I said before. Nothing like banning an idea for making people think there must be something in it. )
And you know, if you stop and think about it logically... if someone is interested in Buddhism — considering taking it up, or needing to research it academically, or anything in between — then if they don't find your particular books, they'll find others, or else look it up online. Burning or else destroying your handful of Buddhist books won't get rid of Buddhism. It won't stop people out there from being drawn to Buddhism. (It might even have the opposite effect, like I said before. Nothing like banning an idea for making people think there must be something in it. )
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