Current Events > Which do you think is the more peaceful religion: Christianity or Buddhism?

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I feel like both of these religions claim all the time that they're peaceful and wish no harm on anybody. While I highly doubt that's true for either one, is there one that you'd say inflicts less damage to the world? Which one is more peaceful?
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Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances
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Well, Buddhism uses the swastika unironically, so I'll say Christianity

(j/k)
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Christianity is a garbage religion
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gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

myanmar
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gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

Ask the Rohingya if Buddhists are as peaceful as you claim.
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christianity without its tanakhic baggage is arguably as peaceful as buddhism

of course 99.9% of christians revere the tanakhic baggage, some literally

nothing against the tanakh though, but if you don't attempt to read between the lines, it's a hot mess
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TheMikh posted...

gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

myanmar

Do I need to bold the whole "Bible" bit? That's allegedly the divine word of god himself. Is the violence of Myanmar's sects actually following the direct teachings/ word of the founders of the religion?
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Buddhism is significantly more peaceful.

Except in Burma right now. Seriously wtf.
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gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

This, basically. Not that Buddhism doesn't have it's really dark ideas itself.

My Buddha is kinda gangster looking to be honest but he is made of silver not gold and small.

Dash_Harber posted...

gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

This, basically. Not that Buddhism doesn't have it's really dark ideas itself.

Completely off topic, but can you post that thing again about Buddism having deity's or what not. My friends been asking me about that and I'm too lazy to do research on it.
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Not supposed to but they worship Buddha.
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Prestoff posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

This, basically. Not that Buddhism doesn't have it's really dark ideas itself.

Completely off topic, but can you post that thing again about Buddism having deity's or what not. My friends been asking me about that and I'm too lazy to do research on it.

Of course. It's been awhile so I may need to look up some details.

So basically, there is a popular argument now that Buddhism is more a lifestyle than a religion. This is an incredibly modern theory because, fundamentally, Buddhism is deistic. The earliest sutras contain several deities, and they are also the principal sources for Buddhism.

Even the original accounts of Siddhartha Gautama say that the gods took note of his birth because they were not, in fact, immortal, and thus were also subject to Karma and could benefit from his teachings. Pretty much all the sutras contain references to the deities.

The actual origins of the deities are rarely Buddhism itself, however. This may be where the confusion comes from. There are three major branches, and each one basically adopted regional deities. Theravada adopted Hindu deities, Mahayana adopted Southeast and East Asian deities (as well as Zen Buddhism, a Japanese variant that mixes in Daoism), and Vajrayana is Tibetan. In fact, the Tibetan Book of the Dead is basically a 400-page list of deities Buddhists can pray too.

So yeah, the idea of atheistic Buddhism is based on a simple misunderstanding. Outsiders often interpret the Buddha as the only divine figure, and since he wasn't a god, people assume that Buddhism is atheistic in nature. Of course, some modern thinkers have embraced the idea and so it exists in that sense, but it is about as old and valid as Atheism mixing with Christianity or Islam (and I would argue there is also a significant amount of people who enjoy Buddhism simply because of stereotypes and the appeal of the exotic, given that many of the less progressive beliefs are ignored).

Dash_Harber posted...

gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

This, basically. Not that Buddhism doesn't have it's really dark ideas itself.

It does but those are predominantly the result of the postulants / practitioners.

The teachings itself explicitly condemn all violence. Christianity makes exceptions for permissable violence.
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What is your opinion TC?
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

gunplagirl posted...

Buddhism never justified slavery or genocide or ethnic cleansing or conquering nations abroad for the sake of expanding its influence

Meanwhile the Bible describes all of these as being okay under certain circumstances

This, basically. Not that Buddhism doesn't have it's really dark ideas itself.

It does but those are predominantly the result of the postulants / practitioners.

The teachings itself explicitly condemn all violence. Christianity makes exceptions for permissable violence.

I wasn't talking about violence specifically, just some of the more regressive ideas that people like to gloss over, like the Blood Bowl Sutra (which clearly states that women are committing a sin by spilling unclean blood onto the earth and polluting it when they have their periods).