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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (12369)	5/17/2002 12:58:52 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

>>And if Moses didn't really exist , then what is one to make of the rest of it?<< You are such a skeptic, Mars! Do you mean to tell me that you do not believe that Moses could part a large river? Or cause his staff to turn into a snake? You probably don't even believe that the Buddha could walk on water, or cause a well filled-in with dirt to become productive, or to travel to the deva-worlds as easily as a strong man can extend his arm, huh? My favorite Buddha super-power is his ability to psychically show others his genitals. See Digha Nikaya #30 (Lakkhana Sutta). The Buddha was required to have all the 32 marks of a great man (as stipulated in the Brahmanical tradition). All of these marks could be seen by a casual observer, except for two: genitals covered with a sheath (mark #10) and an extremely long Gene-Simmons-like tongue (mark #27). Whenever the Buddha sensed with his psychic powers that somebody was checking him out to see if he had these marks, he would do two things: 1) Use his powers to psychically show the person his sheathed genitals. 2) Use his mighty tongue to touch each of his ears in turn, then repeatedly lick his eyebrows. This all sounds like a really-bad PeeWee Herman adventure, but it is in the scripture. I can't find an english translation of DN#30 online, but the 32 marks can be found here: web.ukonline.co.uk My point is that there are unbelievable stories and dogmatic crazies who buy them in every religious tradition. But I do run into more of the Christian variety in my neck of the woods.