After so many years, it is still sad to see that people always misconcept this:

Buddhist is not a religion, it is a teaching to guide you to lead a happy life, simple without 7 biggest sins of human.. greed, hate......
But misconcept makes that people think that we pray to certain god, is a buddhist..

Despite what people say, it is very shameful to say that, taoism is not really a religion after all.. if you read through the tao books and teaching, it is a way to respect our ancestor; and i believe that; it is ok to use incense to pray them; as a sign of respect, after all without our ancestor we will not be here either...

Guan Yu, Kuan Yin, or any other statue placed in temple; they are once ancestor that respected by all the people..
as i see, people always bring the issues of religion, is simple; because they don't understand it and simply choose to believe in certainty, yet not understand it...

christian and islam are beautiful religion, both of them are very well in creating a good human; but you see, during the era of christianity, how many church had modify the bible and to earn for their sake? I dare to say the bible originally is for people to believe in good way, without any extra issues like saying other religion as devil.. it's the man that changes it.. jesus himself never blame others for not believing him, instead, he proves it and he showed us how beautiful is god in christian..

and i do believe 1 thing, if you are a strong religion, so what if you don't do good deeds? you ain't going to heaven just because you pray for god but you kill and harm others...

if religion is an issue in relationship, then it's not worth it, after all it is not religion that creates the massiveness, it is the people who misunderstand religion that creates this.. religion should be beautiful, and not argument in it..

if people can understand their own religion very well, it will not create chaos even in a relationship... so i don't see religion as a real issue anyway, it's just the people who wants control over their partner create it.. same goes to family..

P.S: if you find my quoting on religion is against your belief, don't take and feel offended, it is what i feel for religion; and if you are a strong believer and understand your religion very well, you wouldn't shout like a devil 

yes Buddhist is started as a teaching at early days same goes to Christian and Islam
before it became a religious Christian is a teaching of Jesus while Islam is a teaching of Muhammad...
but now days all is considered as a religion.

Buddhist is similar to Hinduism in which they have lots of God and Goddesses

anyway to TS slowly find your soul mate, he wont be far away...

have u tried alpha? its a common ground area where non believers come to dicuss and understand what christianity is all about.no pressure.just dinner,video and sharing:) maybe u should try to understand why he and his family are into christianity in the 1st place

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Added on March 18, 2008, 5:28 pm
yeah sadly most ppl take it for granted and count it as religion; it shouldnt be so but a relationship instead...and ull find life more meaningful