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Originally Posted by AENeuman
Pan
Are you a dualist? All life is just degrees of good and evil. Where would a buddist fit into this philosophy?
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I am really only addressing Rainmaker and his criticism of organized religion. (The fairy tale comment) I am not that deep or philosophical at all about this subject. To me it seems like simple logic that doesn’t require much of a debate or much thought. Pretty much the entire world is in agreement that Zeus and Thor were made up and this stuff will look equally silly in the future. So again why respect it nowadays any more than I respect an ancient Roman's worship of Jupiter?
Spirituality, what happens when someone dies, and what created life are whole other matters all together. I have no idea what happened and science has only gone so far to explain it but at least they have made some attempts. The stories about Jesus and Mohammad aren’t really insight or help at all and blindly opposing change because of some the stories moves you backwards. So I agree with Rainmaker they are basically incredible fairy tales, arguably the best ever written. Great stories, great moral lessons being taught, but fictional characters and events.