Buddhist monk to bless cathedral attendants

A Tibetan Buddhist monk has been invited to bless attendants at an event which will take place at St. Monica Cathedral in Cairns, Australia.

PETITION to Australian Bishops: Stop Sacrilegious Event at the Cathedral of Cairns

The clergymen at Cairns have forgotten Buddhism is a false religion.

The New Advent website says: "The fundamental tenets of Buddhism are marked by grave defects that not only betray its inadequacy to become a religion of enlightened humanity, but also bring into bold relief its inferiority to the religion of Jesus Christ. In the first place, the very foundation on which Buddhism rests—the doctrine of karma with its implied transmigrations—is gratuitous and false. This pretended law of nature, by which the myriads of gods, demons, men, and animals are but the transient forms of rational beings essentially the same, but forced to this diversity in consequence of varying degrees of merit and demerit in former lives, is a huge superstition in flat contradiction to the recognized laws of nature, and hence ignored by men of science.

Another basic defect in primitive Buddhism is its failure to recognize man's dependence on a supreme God. By ignoring God and by making salvation rest solely on personal effort, Buddha substituted for the Brahmin religion a cold and colourless system of philosophy. It is entirely lacking in those powerful motives to right conduct,
particularly the motive of love, that spring from the consecration of religious men and women to the dependence on a personal all-loving God."

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Buddhism

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