I always felt like Buddhism was more a philosophy than a religion. It can be used as a religion, but it really boils down to "Life sucks, but you can be happy if you stop thinking about how much life sucks".
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To be fair, I wouldn't lump Buddhism in with other theistic religions. Of course it can be, but a lot of schools avoid any form of theism. Plus, it's almostvdefinitely the least arbitrary and hypocritical of the Big 5-7
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I remember asking my mother as a child how we knew we were right and her answer was “you have to have faith”. That was the beginning of the end for me. I started refusing to go to church when I was about 10 as I couldn’t fathom how we could just “believe” we were right. Plus how could god punish those who weren’t exposed to our church? It just didn’t make any logical sense to me at that age.
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I increasingly find it bizarre when people committed to the idea of an intelligent designer for our universe ignore the fact that the 'design' has no absolute frame of reference and is relative, down to the recent trend in physics of recognizing relative facts vs stable facts.
Especially bizarre are the ones that do this while committed to the idea the intelligent designer is one of light (i.e. 1 John 1:5), given that fundamentally baked into the design is the fact that light when not able to be directly observed can be more than one thing at once.
But no, they manage to hold fast to the idea it was carefully designed while showing no interest in learning more of that supposed design outside of what they've been told to believe within their giant generational game of telephone back to the days when people peed on their hands to clean them and lamented that why it rained was outside the realm of possible human knowledge thus it was futile to try to understand God.
Poor Baha'i, they never get meme-mocked
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