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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Intersting points, guys.
Of course, people of my belief system (I always struggle with what word to use ... since Buddhism is not a "religion" in the true sense of that word) do not believe in a 'creator god."
Although, we are also taught to believe that all faiths are worthy of the highest respect to the extent that they are based in compassion for others. Which is why I've always enjoyed discussing religion with people ... especially when it comes to the history and evolution of the belief structure.
Someone here in Texas once asked me why there didn't seem to be any Buddhist "missionaries." I opined that it was probably because to try to change the faith of another person would be to cause them to suffer ... and the whole idea of Buddhism is to try to relieve suffering.
Every person has to find their own path to enlightenment ... you can't force someone to have faith in something. And, requiring people to believe in something that is just plain wrong ... is just plain wrong. 
As the Dalai Lama said (and I'm seriously paraphrasing here so I won't use quotes ...) If modern science proves something to be false, then it is false. It doesn't matter if Buddha himself believed it to be true and stated that it is true ... it is still false. Buddha was enlightened, but he was still a human being, and as a human being capable of being wrong. |
I should have said "myth beat out
most others". Sorry.