Christianity, with its rigid dualisms (God and man, good and evil, will and grace) has long offered a vision of reality that is fatally fractured, propped up by the fragile scaffolding of a personal deity and a moralistic universe. It speaks to the ego, flatters it even, with its promises of eternal reward, personal salvation, and divine favor, but in doing so, it entrenches the very self-centeredness it claims to overcome. Buddhism, by contrast, offers no such consoling fictions. It asks us to die, not physically, but existentially, to dissolve the illusion of a separate self into the radical emptiness (śūnyatā) that underlies all things. Where Christianity clings to a personal God to preserve meaning, Buddhism embraces the void and finds in it the source of true compassion and liberation. The Christian God must speak, must command, must judge; but silence, in Buddhism, is the sound of the world as it is, unmediated by ego or dogma. In an age defined by nihilism, the idea of a cosmic Father watching over us feels not only outdated but obscene. The path forward is not a return to faith but a step beyond it, into the raw, impersonal, yet infinitely interconnected reality that Buddhism makes not only intelligible but livable.

>>17820842 (OP)
lot of yapping

>>17820842 (OP)
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>>17820863
pay for an ad

Pretty sure actual Buddhists despise this watered-down version of it that Western atheists peddle. Your whole post is just an appeal to the modern fear of masculine authority figures.

>>17820898
>Pretty sure actual Buddhists despise this watered-down version of it that Western atheists peddle
Later man-made practices/doctrines created centuries after the fact don't represent Buddha's original teaching.

>>17820903
Yeah, good thing Western hippies discovered the true doctrine of the Buddha that Buddhists had been hiding for centuries, you colossal faggot.

>>17820842 (OP)
Yep, Christians and Muslims never truly overcome self-interest and narcissism, and Judaism is all about them.

>>17820889
You don't deserve a brain. :)

>>17820842 (OP)
>Christianity
>dualism
Lol, do brainlets really? Read ACIM.

>>17820979
You don't have one :)

>>17822339
>thinks his new age hindoo inspired book represents schizo death cult christianity

>>17820898
Pretty sure insecure conservative christcucks despise the fact that christ was a commie feminist.

>>17820842 (OP)
>rigid dualisms
nothing equals the Goodness of God, everything falls short. There is no "dualism", only degrees of lack of virtues beneath Him.

>>17822604
Yep, that's dualism.

>>17822639
nigga, I don't think you know what dualism is
dualism implies the existence of a coequal, opposite force to the premised one. There is no such thing in Christanity. When I say, lack of virtues, it doesn't mean that the absence exists as an opposite force.

>>17822647
Of course you think the good is greater you fucking retard, try to see things objectively without emotion.

>>17822665
I am seeing it logically and you seem quite emotionally invested in the conversation. Good is qualitative; it is better to have a quality than lack it. Meanwhile, Evil is a lack, an absence of a qualitative. It is not desirable to lack the quality of existence, compared to possessing it. True Evil is Nothing, and Nothing doesn't exist. There is only the Good.