Christianity promises salvation, but only after you've surrendered to a distant, all-powerful God who created you flawed, demands your obedience, and dangles redemption as a reward for belief. It splits reality into opposites (God and man, soul and body, heaven and earth) and forces you to live divided, torn between the spiritual and the rational. That never sat right with me. I don’t want to worship some cosmic overseer who exists apart from the world, judging from above. I want to dissolve the illusion of separation itself. That’s why I turned to Buddhism. It doesn’t ask for blind faith or submission to authority; it asks you to face the raw truth of existence, to let go of the ego, to see through the self and find freedom in the here and now. Where Christianity imposes hierarchy, will, and guilt, Buddhism reveals interconnectedness, presence, and compassion without strings attached. I don't need to be "saved" from sin, I need to wake up. And only Buddhism has given me the tools to do that, not through dogma, but through direct, lived experience.

>>510690604 (OP)
It's really not comparable. Buddhism is not even a religion by western definition. Buddhism is just metaphysics humanity forgot to practice anymore due to material abundance and hence the spiritual expansion of humanity kind of halted and paused at that point about 2000 years ago.

>>510690604 (OP)
Buddhism is spiritual while theism is more like a dictatorship.

>>510690604 (OP)
>all-powerful God who created you flawed
He created mankind perfect, we chose original sin.
>and forces you to live divided, torn between the spiritual and the rational
News to me. Someone better tell Aquinas, and some of the greatest philosophers and logicians who ever lived. Buddhism can be very rational, but Buddhist culture tends to swing towards subjective reality, which is why east asia tends to struggle with political philosophy, science, and history compared to the west.
>I don’t want to worship some cosmic overseer who exists apart from the world, judging from above. I want to dissolve the illusion of separation itself
Literally all the Abrahamic faiths don't view God this way. Read up on Platonism, I'm not even joking you have it backwards. Eastern religion in general tends to view the supernatural as distant and uncaring, whereas there's categorically no ideology with a more intimate relationship with the divine than Christianity.
>it asks you to face the raw truth of existence, to let go of the ego, to see through the self and find freedom in the here and now
You've made a fatal logical contradiction that ironically excludes you from Buddhism. You seriously need to read up more on Buddhism, there's a lot to be admired but this is embarrassing.
>Where Christianity imposes hierarchy, will, and guilt, Buddhism reveals interconnectedness, presence, and compassion without strings attached
You clearly have learned about both religions from a leftist college professor.
>not through dogma, but through direct, lived experience.
Drei glaser. You've played your hand. That said I'm probably the retard here, since I'm 70% sure this is AI slop.