For me, All about Religion always like Believers (abrahamic religion vs the rest of the world).

While this thread is about Buddhism vs Atheist...

Since Buddhism always like to say they are philosophical but actually they are not if they delve
deeper. This probably the most misleading thing about Buddhism. Lured you in by promising the
most logical religion ever existed.But when you're in and delve deeper, the same supernatural
thing like Christian exist.

At least, Christian are totally honest about it. THey said we're supernatural. Need faith to understand.
But Buddhism instead tell us, hey, no supernatural. All philosophical. Yeah right.

Evangelism in buddhism??? That's something new.    If you want to look at history and the state of the world today, it's the opposite.  Buddhism states are slowly turning into christian states due to the aggressive chrisitian missionaries in South Korea. Previously buddhist places like Afghanistan, Indonesia (borobuddur) have long disappeared.  If you want to talk about the success of evangelism, nothing can beat christians (in the availability of resources) and the muslims (in the conversion by Law). 

Buddhism just offers an alternate view on this world where 99% of religions say there is a Creator. It says the opposite. If you don't like this, no problem dude. But don't make it a case of disliking buddhists for no particular reason just because their belief don't agree with your likings. They don't harm your family , they don't make it a law for you to convert, they don't force you to believe it.  They don't force your girlfriend, your father, your mother, your children to believe it. They don't split your family into "us versus them", they don't see you as evil or 'hell denizens'. They don't call you infidels, they don't wage war against your ancestors or family.

Why the anti-buddhist sentiment among some people here? I don't get it.

Regarding the bolded part. This may be partly true but if you look from another angle, this shows that there are also some Buddhist teaching that may mislead us to unhappiness. Some of the Buddhist teaching may also mislead the people and you can see it in some of the priest who abuse their power to control the people.

Currently, the only lay organization for Buddhism is Soka Gakkai International (SGI) which is growing now as more and more people are taking faith under it. It organization is under Nichiren Buddhism.

Dreamer101: I may not know much about Zen Buddhism but what you said about it relates to some of SGI concept which is live life to the fullest and regards hardship and problems you are getting as an opportunity for you to improve yourself.

Actually what are you guys afraid of?
Buddhism has it's merits. They are the hidden Dhamma to be discovered.
Once you know and experience the Triple Gem for yourself, you will never look at it with fear nor contempt.

unknown warrior,

The path towards enlightenment is WITHIN you.  Why do you need to read a book and argue with people on what the book says to find IT??

That is the DIFFERENCE between Buddhism and Abrahamic Religions.

We encourage doubt and thinking.  We encourage CHOICES.  It is a PERSONAL JOURNEY.  We look WITHIN us to find answer.

God may or may not exists.  But, why do you need to read a book to experience God?? If God exists, it should be within us too.

The ANSWER is always here.  It is always within us.  We are the problem and we are the solution.

YOU feel the NEED to convince OTHERS.  Why??  If it is GOOD and RIGHT for us, we will find it.  If not, why burden us with something that is WRONG for us??

Why there should be ONLY ONE way??  I don't believe that.

Dreamer

unknown warrior,

Why should we care about YOUR BELIEF?? That is YOUR PROBLEM for you to solve out.  If it works for you, fine.  If not, do something else.

Ditto for us.  We have to work out on our own what works for us.

<<It's okay I'm not trying to convert you guys.>>

YOU choose your burden.  Being in a Abrahamic Religion, you BELIEVE that there is ONLY one way.  Hence, you NEED to argue with EVERYONE else that they are WRONG or their interpretation of the book is wrong.

We are Buddhist.  We believe in multiple paths towards Enlightenment.  We have neither the NEED or DESIRE to prove OTHERS are wrong.  We do not have that BURDEN.  All paths are possible and equally valid.

That is the part that you do not understand.  This is IRRELEVANT to us.

Dreamer

unknown warrior,

The right word is I feel sorry for you.  But, that is your life and your choice.

Dreamer

P.S.:  My Christian friends are learning Hebrew in order to read "Dead Sea Scroll" directly.  They are working very hard to get as pure and accurate meaning in bible.

P.S.2.:  I am Zen Buddhist.  I do not even believe in reading Sutras.

Then why should this thread be in RWI?

Why not in Kopitiam as those in Christian and Islam thread? There, all trollers get reported and the trolling posts gets removed.
But here i see so many arguments and stuffs, shouldnt it be in All About Religion thread?

This buddhist thread ought to be for buddhists to gather and for others to get to know buddhism, but all i've seen here between SPikemarlene, teongpeng, unknown warrior, dreamer101 etc are all debating!

Why cant this thread be moved to kopitiam?

i thought this racist tered was closed ? so much nerve hor recreate same thread ? pls respect la forum rules here is /k/ not place for religion for buddhites

apa tahi lu tanya ?

its just stone. why want to worshipping a stone

We don't worship stones or idols.  We are just paying respect to Buddha and not worshiping the statue. 

When the Taliban destroyed the statues, I didn't consider it as a big loss.  After all nothing is permanent and it is like you said just stone. 

It is however regrettable that such a cultural artifact that withstood hundreds of years is gone in an instant blown up by explosives.

wrong. muslims dont worship the kaaba. only worship God. this is buddhish thread so you can google explain regarding this

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