Christianity has proven itself to be not just inadequate for addressing our modern spiritual crisis, but actively complicit in creating it. The very foundations of Western nihilism and atheism can be traced back to Christianity's toxic marriage with Platonism, which birthed the mechanistic worldview that now haunts us. Where Buddhism offers the profound wisdom of śūnyatā -the liberating emptiness that dissolves all artificial divisions- Christianity clings to a primitive dualism that tears reality apart at its seams, creating an unbridgeable chasm between God and creation, subject and object, sacred and profane. This fundamental split breeds the very self-centeredness that Christianity claims to cure, manifesting in centuries of Crusades, Inquisitions, and religious wars that Buddhism's history mercifully lacks. Christianity's obsession with will (both divine and human) has spawned the egotistical humanism that now devours the planet, while its linear eschatology traps believers in a neurotic relationship with time that modern consciousness can no longer accept. Even Christian "love" reveals itself as Nietzsche exposed: a disguised nihilism, a solidarity of the weak that transforms suffering into life-denial and pity into a practice of nothingness. Buddhism, by contrast, offers what Christianity desperately needs but cannot achieve on its own terms: a path beyond the self-centered prison of Western thought into the true freedom of absolute nothingness, where the very ground of selfhood dissolves into the organic oneness that heals our fractured world.

>>24517353 (OP)
>bugman Buddhist faggot preaching his submission to "nirvana" (which is the act of doing absolutely fucking nothing)

>>24517353 (OP)
Buddhism is much worse

>>24517353 (OP)
Aryan religions such as Buddhism have, throughout history, been about seeking truth through direct experience and self-realization. They promote personal freedom, compassion, and wisdom, encouraging people to look inward and understand the nature of suffering and reality without relying on external authority. Historically, these traditions have fostered cultures that value inquiry, balance, and spiritual growth, often coexisting peacefully with other beliefs and adapting without forcing conversion or control.

In stark contrast, Semitic religions like Christianity have played a central role in shaping world history through control, domination, and enforced dogma. Christianity’s rise coincided with the consolidation of empires that used religion as a tool to centralize power and suppress dissent. The historical record shows centuries of violent crusades, inquisitions, colonialism, and cultural erasure all justified in the name of spreading “the one true faith.” Christianity’s insistence on absolute truth and salvation through a single path has fueled endless conflict, intolerance, and division.

While Aryan spiritual paths have tended to open minds and encourage internal liberation, Semitic religions historically thrived on external control, deception, and the imposition of fear-based morality to maintain social order and political power. This created a world where truth was often sacrificed for illusion, and spiritual growth was replaced by obedience and dogmatic conformity.

Ultimately, the Aryan approach to spirituality invites honest confrontation with reality and personal awakening, while the Semitic legacy often enforces deception, illusion, and lies—both in belief and in the violent histories they shaped.

>>24517367
>In stark contrast, Semitic religions like Christianity have played a central role in shaping world history through control, domination, and enforced dogma.

Wrong, both are the same

>>24517369
Christianity is a dying empire of delusion, and like any collapsing power, it turns to theft and mimicry in its final hour. Now that Buddhism is rising in the collective psyche—calm, clear, and unburdened by guilt—Christians scramble to rewrite their failed mythos. They claim Jesus was a bodhisattva, a Buddha in disguise, as if slapping Eastern labels on their tortured, blood-drenched idol will cleanse the rot. It's pathetic. The same religion that burned heretics, crushed mystics, and demonized inner knowing now dares to crawl back and beg relevance from a path it once would’ve called demonic. They cling to Buddha like a parasite clings to its host—hoping no one notices the stench.

This isn’t spiritual humility; it’s historical pattern. They did it with Greek philosophy, hijacking reason to prop up superstition. They bastardized pagan festivals, renamed gods, and mutilated every culture they touched in the name of salvation. Now they eye Buddhism with the same colonial hunger—not to understand it, but to use it as a life raft. But Buddhism doesn't need a crucified mascot or a celestial dictator. It doesn’t deal in sin-debt or divine ransom. It is everything Christianity never was: ego-shattering, honest, free. And that’s why they fear it. Because once the spell of the Nazarene breaks, there's no going back.

>>24517369
How can they be the same? There is a fundamental difference in their core belief. Christianity believes that all men are inherently separated from God and only Christ can be the bridge that reconnects you to God. Buddhism believes that we are already one with God and that we as humans have just forgotten because we are too distracted by our ego, our worldy desires and problems.

>>24517353 (OP)
>western nihilism :|
>nihilism but eastern :O

>>24517373
>>24517392
Wrong claims,

AI thread

Rebirth? Cope
Heaven? Cope.
All these supernatural ideas have been propagated because man fears death.

>>24517405
Christ being the only path to God in christian belief is not a claim, that's the core of the entire religion.

>>24517422
Christ is more powerful than budhaa

>>24517430
What a sad, spiritually hollow existence you must lead that you view religion like a marvel movie.

>>24517442
God granted the worthy ones more power, as simple as

>>24517410
The internet is just AI replying to itself

>>24517392
>How could they be the same
How is the weather like OP?

>>24517367
Ironically, this is an entirely Western and Semitic method of comparing the two traditions, dogmatically imposing the dichotomy "personal freedom = good, enforced dogma = bad." It reflects a degree of sentimentality unworthy of an Arya. It also reflects an implicitly Western concept of freedom, namely, the freedom of the individual, individual rights, that is foreign to Buddhism or any other Aryan tradition.

The mentality that produces this dyad cannot hope for any greater reward than Brahmaloka, and the vast number of jivas who remain limited to this mentality suffices to explain the proliferation of Semitic traditions abroad. The Western reception of Oriental doctrines has mainly served to rationalize a materialistic way of life, because Westerners and Westernized people cannot aspire to a self beyond identification with this individual body, and therefore they are induced to worship this body as if it were the Semitic God.

>>24517353 (OP)
If you're positing all those claims as true, you're at least implicitly claiming that truth exists, which contradicts the core of Buddhist teaching.

Buddhism was invented by myopic orientals who were too effeminate to really seriously consider questions of truth. This is why their mysticism ends in a morass of contradictions and emptiness.

Sure, subjectively it may be true that everything is nothing and nothing is everything... if you don't think, everything is the same to a confused and muddled eastern mind ready to discharge its filthy menses onto its own opium addled face. But in reality, in TRUTH, things are distinct. That is what truth is: distinction; that is what KNOWLEDGE is, difference between the knower and what is known.

buddhism is a modern creation, can you point to me the buddhists. Are they the hindus with their castes or the chinese with their gold statues, the tibetans with their llamas or whatever the cambodians are doing.

>>24517568
Division is the disease of the modern materialist mind—a corrosive force that tears reality into lifeless fragments, each disconnected from the whole. This pathological mindset reduces existence to a soulless game of categories, measurements, and isolated objects, leaving behind a barren world where meaning evaporates and fulfillment is impossible. By continually dividing, we deny the interdependence that gives life its depth and richness. Instead, we construct a hollow framework of "self versus other," "mind versus body," "us versus them," creating endless conflict and alienation. The result? A desolate world of separation where everything, including the self, is meaningless.

Contrast this with the wisdom of oneness found in Eastern thought, which exposes the absurdity of division. In clinging to separation, the materialist mindset destroys the very foundation of existence—the interconnection of all things. Division leads not to understanding but to ignorance, as we fail to see the web of unity that binds life together. It is this unity that gives existence its fullness, its meaning, and its vitality. A divided world is not only empty but hostile, a playground for nihilism and despair. Embracing oneness is not just spiritual truth; it is the antidote to the sterile, joyless wasteland that materialism inevitably creates.

>>24517583
Lay off the chatgpt and answer me with your own words

>>24517595
I knew you were a pseud.

>>24517583
So are the diseased division of the modern materialist mind and the wisdom of oneness found in Eastern thought two opposing things or one?

>>24517353 (OP)
Christianity predicted it's own downfall. Atheism could not have come about without Christianity. The death of Christianity is literally a part of the story. Christ predicts person death for himself and corporate death of the church, but also resurrection for both.

>>24517619
Words are just symbols, not truth itself—a concept Buddhism makes clear by emphasizing direct experience over attachment to language. The Buddha taught that clinging to words is a form of delusion, a barrier to enlightenment, as they can only point toward truth, not embody it. Contrast this with Christianity’s obsessive reliance on "the Word," treating scripture as if it’s an untouchable divine revelation. This fixation on language reduces truth to secondhand stories, fostering blind faith and dogma instead of personal insight. Buddhism cuts through this illusion, rejecting the idea that ultimate reality can ever be captured by mere words. Truth is to be directly realized, not confined to text or worshipped as infallible.

>>24517628
>Words are just symbols, not truth itself

Is this statement itself true? Buddhists don't believe in the truth, which absurdity gives the lie to their whole teaching. It's just oriental mumbo jumbo, a fortune cookie writ large. Confusious say beat wife, even if you don't know what she's done, she does.

>>24517373
>Christianity is a dying empire of delusion
You're a golem with no attunement to the yuga if you think Buddhism and all other spiritual traditions aren't equally dying. The vast majority of Buddhists (and this includes the sangha) are just superstitious cargo cultists and, in the West, leftists that don't follow the way the Buddha taught to direct realisation in the suttas, that consider much of the original religion (elitist, misogynist, pessimistic, austere, Aryan) problematic to its core.

>>24517353 (OP)
I hate the dick measuring. I'm more convinced every year that they're both legitimate and equal way of upholding God's will and leading one to the ultimate goal of life and religion.

>>24517715
>has a giant cock that makes christcucks feel insecure

>>24517395
Buddhism specifically argued against nihilism and annihilationism

>>24517646
Not sure where you got the idea Buddhists don't believe in truth. Instead of arguing with this chatgpt user, just look up the two truths doctrine this bot is overcomplicating.

>>24517628
>Words are just symbols, not truth itself—a concept Buddhism makes clear by emphasizing direct experience over attachment to language.
True, and corroborated in Aristotle's doctrine of the tripartite sign.
>The Buddha taught that clinging to words is a form of delusion, a barrier to enlightenment, as they can only point toward truth, not embody it. Contrast this with Christianity’s obsessive reliance on "the Word," treating scripture as if it’s an untouchable divine revelation.
In Christian beliefs the Word with a capital W does not mean human words, it means God Himself. The created intellect knows objects by means of words, whereas God knows Himself by means of Himself alone. Thus the Word of God is the same as God and not a word of language. The emphasis here is in fact on direct experience, in the Beatific Vision in this case, not attachment to language.

The (patristic) Christian attitude toward sacred scripture is not different from samma ditthi and samma vaca, the former with respect to the formulation of revealed truths and the latter with respect to the sense or interpretation of them. It's a quality common to all traditional societies. Because the traditions are not produced by human ingenuity, no human has the authority to alter their contents or meaning. Buddhists are exactly as dogmatic about the dhamma as Christians about the gospel. Attachment to language is a quality of human nature in the very same state that every religion is intended to overcome, so it is no more surprising to find bitter and abstruse disputations between Madhyamaka and Yogacara Buddhists than between Thomist and Molinist Catholics, for example, or between Chalcedonian and Monophysite Orthodox, no matter how much Christ or Buddha might have taught their disciples that worldly attachments (e.g., to words) can only generate suffering.

It seems to me that your understanding of Buddhism is clearer than your understanding of Christianity.

>>24517353 (OP)
>modern spiritual crisis, but actively complicit in creating it.
good take

>>24517410
Funny, almost as if the jeet replaced his em dashes with hyphens to bypass my em dash filter.

>>24517715
correct, now read Panikkar for gigabrain Heideggerian perennialism

>>24518667
>Heideggerian
>perennialism
Haven't read Panikkar but how does a Heideggerian get over the fundamental perennialist thesis that Being is necessarily eternal?