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It's one of the things that led me to Christ. I could not live up to my own standards. Now I don't have to try. Jesus lives in me and He has no trouble meeting the highest standard, which is God's.
You are not being faulted for your relationship to a deity as you understand that deity.
You are excellent at finding faults of other religions. How about the massive child abuse among the many Christian denominations?
When you criticize something you do not understand you display your ignorance.
First of all, in the eyes of the law, child abuse and child abandonment are two different things.
You better hope Buddhists do though. One of them might set himself on ... oh, wait ... nevermind.
What if you venerate something you think you understand?
That's a doosey of a way to state it.Frank Robert said:
As I said before you have an excellent knack of criticizing things that you do not understand.
Sin is a religious construct and a way of comprehending morality via negatives. It it works for you then it is a good for you. I am not trying to change your mind, I am only pointing out that there are other good alternatives.
There is no veneration in Buddhism. I merely indicated that Buddhism is a good moral compass. Speaking highly of a philosophy is not veneration for the founder. If you have a gripe against the Buddha let's hear it, but first understand the basics before you do.
Once again you are criticizing things that you have zero understanding of. Try reading introductory material on things you like to criticize before you criticize them.
It is not difficult for the average person to understand that there are zero idols in Buddhism. Again read introductory material before criticizing things that you have zero knowledge about.
Wait 'till I project tantrism vis-a-vis adultery and fornication.
Nice try but an Christian overview of world religions is not introductory information on Buddhism. All it will do is to confirm your bias.Like this one?
As I said you are excellent at criticizing and not making any sense.
I'll pass.
None of my business, but do you have a college degree? Just wondering.
I agree that you have made many uninformed points.
I was commenting on a previous post regarding morals. Pay attention.
Buddhism is a moral philosophy but you wouldn't know that.
That is what you have been taught. Buddhists would disagree.
No one is asking you to give up the Ten Commandments. Buddhists believe that Christianity has some redeeming points.
It's one thing to see some of the problems, but quite another to know how to fix them and the fixes that come to mind have already been rejected. Plus I don't have that kind of personality, and I generally don't like those kinds of people.
No problem. My graduate degrees are in psychology, my main work interests are addictions and mediation. At one time I was interested in modern psychoanalysis and had a supervisor who has done groundbreaking work on "evil."
