Buddhism, or Christianity...which is the wiser religion to you?

[sean]

Buddhism, or Christianity...which is the wiser religion to you?

Spoiler!

Religions of the world are like different fingers on a hand. They are different lengths but they all come together at the same point.

Religions want people to understand love, sincerity, respect, humility, and harmony. They provide: ethics, morality, causality, philosophy, and broscience.

Buddhist texts however have answers for every sentient being. And without a godhead figure that rewards or punishes (that leads to fear and abandonment issues in some believers of other religions).

At the end of the day, even if there was nothing after death, I'm still inclined to see religion as a way for us to flourish. If there is no higher end, then those elders who crafted religions, were wise enough to codify a guide in the form of tales to prevent us from creating a Sodom and Gomorrah scenario, and help us from our own self-indulgent monkey brains.

And why...

Buddhism is a philosophy and not a religion. It is their rites such as prayers, practices, and services which make them religious. Storywise, Buddha was a rich spoiled kid that supposedly ascended, admirable.

Jesus said, “Do to others as you would have them do to you,” while Buddha said, “Consider others as yourself.” While Christianity becomes mostly meaningless if Jesus never existed, the Dharma is not harmed in the slightest if the same is said about the Buddha.

And Buddha gave no proof that his teaching is really true, that there are multiple lives and if people would follow his teaching, they would really get nirvana. Jesus on the other hand supposedly showed proof by great miracles and being raised from the dead. Buddha stayed dead.

The problem is Buddha broke away from Hinduism, and came up with his own philosophy, but, of course, the people worshipped Buddha instead of following Buddha's own religion.

It shows that humans need God to worship and a good example to emulate, but Buddha failed to notice his teaching would lead to being worshipped as idol.

Buddhism's reincarnation is really just an artful way of describing how we're inexorably part of this united world system, so when we die, the matter that makes up our bodies continues on as the organic matter that will make up other organisms. Or consciousness may die, but it's just a manifestation of this larger system that will keep going. Taoists call this world system the Tao, Sufists call it God, philosophers call it panentheism.

The Christian concepts of Heaven and Hell are a metaphor for the fact that if you act in ways that are in accordance with the truth, which honour those around you, you can make the world around you a paradise. But if you act against the truth, in delusion and deceit, causing harm to those around you, then you make the world hellish (The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You by Leo Tolstoy).

The most accurate form of Buddhism is Sōtō Zen. The most accurate form of Christianity is Quakerism. For good measure, the most accurate form of Islam is Bektashi Sufism.

[Batavia]

Neither, both religions are life-negating.

[Gallop]

Christianity is what I have been taught in my family home and are the fundamental pillars on which my identity and my whole being are based.

[Hexachordia]

I can not pretend to understand a lot but I just think about religions more than most people. I just find Buddhism is like water, it provides mental strength when ever is needed without going for the complicated rituals and ceremonies. Christianity allows me to know more about other people, seeing the world in a challenging way, to go deeper about knowing oneself than one starts with Buddhism. For me, it maybe weird but I am more buddhist than christian, yet, more about freeing thinking than being a buddhist.