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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And anything is horrible if you handwaved the great. That's why Buddha took the middle path.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are we talking about Buddhism or Christianity here?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can you prove that Christianity isn't the result of some middle eastern Jew learning about Buddhism on the Silk Road and trying to translate it into middle eastern Jew?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then it was co-opted by people who used it as cover for systematic sexual abuse and murder of entire groups of people and is currently being used to attempt to convert entire countries into dystopian theocracies?

That’s one hell of a game of telephone, then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

2000 years will do that. It's a sad fact that any prestigious positions of power, especially those implicitly ordained by God™, attract narcissistic sociopaths.