" The early Christian writers (as well as modern) never gave much credence to Buddha and saw it as their duty to present people the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ as the alternative of spending eternity in hell. "
Sorry Chris , but the early Christians or even the more modern Christian
writers knew very little of what Buddha actually said or
taught for they didn't have even the slightest grasp of those languages or interpreting
the written scriptures until mostly up into the
last century at best.
I'm sorry to inform you of this Chris , but as always
you say whatever is convenient to denounce
what you do not understand.
In almost the majority of cases , what you call
"saving souls from eternal hell " , was in fact
systematic exploitation , colonization ,
and monopoly of human labor and resources.
They paid little heed to even make the
slightest attempt to understand these beliefs
and most advanced spiritual teachings , sacred
to almost 1 1/2 billion today , Indians , Japanese
or Southeast Asians..or the Chinese then.
As for your condemning others to hell, and calling others
robbers, charlatans, witches, pagans, cultists, atheists,
that do not belive as you , I'll leave you with some Einstein to ponder:
" "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
~ Albert Einstein
regards
Mars |
