Anonymous
7/7/2025, 3:46:58 AM No.24528066
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 (ลลซnyatฤ) 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 In an age defined by nihilism, the idea of a cosmic Father watching over us feels not only outdated but obscene.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.
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