Thanks! Nothing gets my essay-writing muscles warmed up like the kind of masturbatory circus on display over there. ;D
The very best Christians I've ever known were all Buddhists. (Well, there was one pretty excellent, loving, curious, inclusive Christian I knew. But he got a revelatory dream from the Goddess and became a pagan, so that was that.) That's a big reason why I cannot take the claims of the Bible-thumpers seriously - when your fellow worshippers are trumped hands-down at your own game by a completely (and I mean completely) different religion, it doesn't say much for the integrity of what you're pushing on others.
Maybe if Christianity required the kind of rigorous, physically challenging daily dedication that Buddhism does, more of Jesus's followers would be less inclined to hypocrisy. Of course, some encouragment of questioning, discussion, experimentation and deciding for oneself just what is and isn't true might help, as well. But we can't have people actually thinking like adults, can we? That would ruin all the rich preachers' fun, that.
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The very best Christians I've ever known were all Buddhists. (Well, there was one pretty excellent, loving, curious, inclusive Christian I knew. But he got a revelatory dream from the Goddess and became a pagan, so that was that.) That's a big reason why I cannot take the claims of the Bible-thumpers seriously - when your fellow worshippers are trumped hands-down at your own game by a completely (and I mean completely) different religion, it doesn't say much for the integrity of what you're pushing on others.
Maybe if Christianity required the kind of rigorous, physically challenging daily dedication that Buddhism does, more of Jesus's followers would be less inclined to hypocrisy. Of course, some encouragment of questioning, discussion, experimentation and deciding for oneself just what is and isn't true might help, as well. But we can't have people actually thinking like adults, can we? That would ruin all the rich preachers' fun, that.