Personally, I have never liked how Christans call every other belief system false; even when I was a christian. However, I especially don't get it with buddhism, are Christians just not educated on what buddhism is?|||I have been Buddhist for a long time and have never had any Christian say what you claim
Could it be You are making this up|||You've never been to a Buddhist Temple or Wat, have you?
I've attended Buddhist Churches of America Temples for almost 50 years, and visited a lot of Chinese, Viet Namese, Thai and Tibetan Temples, as well as other Japanese sects. Buddhism does not include everything that English speaking Christians mean by religion, but we use a good hefty chunk of it! Most of the methods by which we apply the philosophical side of it are "religious". Incense, gongs, moral training, chanting, studying the "holy" (sort of) books, calling on various personifications of Enlightenment that seem almost like gods, getting prepared for what comes after death- if we only believed in a soul and in a god or gods, and prayed for things, we would be unquestionably a religion!
If it weren't for the parts that correspond to "religion", Buddhism would be nothing more than an interesting idea.
I think Christians' objection to Buddhism is that it distracts from or replaces Christianity, whether or not they agree that it is a religion, so you couldn't get them to cut us some slack that way. But thanks for trying!.|||I don't think its worth any time trying to guess why some people say what they do.
If I had to make a generalization, I would say because its something other than what they believe, therefore, its a threat.
Whenever there is a belief, there is by design other things not to believe. Beliefs require an opposition. Lots of religions call the opposition "evil". This is the dualistic design of belief related religion.
You have to understand that those who call Buddhism false without considering what it is, are merely defending their beliefs.
Don't bother trying to justify Buddhism to them. Its difficult to do, but you have to accept that those people are not aware of the duality of their thoughts. Its OK, let it be. Love them anyway.|||Just as there are people egocentric there also are people 'faith centred' To them every other one is non human, "worst creatures" . Like the naked king thought he was wearing a beautiful dress, they think their belief system is the best and all others are sinneres . Some Christian denominations have websites trying to defame the Buddhist clergy. To this they take videos or photographs of actual or made up situations. Some are true as they can happen among all people, but do not depict the general situation. . What matters is why some Christian denominations keep websites to propagaet them.
To. St. Mugg up there: Buddhism is not 'nihilism with a happy face' Of course when you study it as the first truth "there is suffering", it appears so. But the 3rd truth is the way out of suffering" and the 4th truth is "how to end the suffering" So it is not nihilism. Anybody can relaize the ideals of it "then and there" [e:hi passiko:] and see "then and there". [santhhittiko:] There are thousands who have realized the truth of it at varying levels. To them it is not nihilism but a "joy" .
To a person who thinks living with a man or a womanit is a joy, and the buddhist aim may appear as nihilistic to them, because he or she sees the Buddhist aim through the values created on their desires which desires always end in dissatisfaction. When the satisfaction given by those aims ends in dissatisfaction, then they turn to an answer asking "Why is this suffering?"
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/17028761/CHAP-…|||Logically, either all religions, are false, or one is true and all the others are false.
Buddhism may in fact be a philosophy -- nihilism with a happy face -- but many Buddhists practice it as a religion, and most reference books and encyclopedias list it as a religion. That's what most of us were taught in school.
When did you poll "most Buddhists?"|||Well, first
pretty much every religion is going to call all other religions false.
So that isn't just Christians. Don't hate JUST one group for doing what all the other groups. If you hate that action, dislike ALL the groups that do it. Do you think that Buddhists don't think Christianity is false?
I do like your point about how some Buddhists don't even call it a religion. Let's start by thinking it isn't a religion.
Then we have to look at :
a teaching that talks about REBIRTH, going through a succession of lives, that smacks of a religion.
each birth takes place in one of 5 realms, one of which is:
Devas including Brahmas: which can be translated as gods, angels or whatever certainly continues
JUST those two points alone are going to make most people in the world say "yeah, it's a religion"
So at this point, I'd have to ask you:
why do you think it ISN'T a religion?
Then we have to ask:
are we talking about Buddhism as a religion or just people who try to follow the ideas of the faith to make the world better? I can see it is possible for people to follow the ideas of how to behave without actually believing in rebirth and some of the other things. Just as some people might follow what Christ said to do, even though they don't think he was God, just because those sayings tend to lead to a better world?|||Its because most christians are stupid, half of them dont follow there own religion. IT sais in the bible they dont need a structure to expose there religion or something like that, yet they have billions of dollars spent in churches. Before the idea of god even was made... Where did the people go after death? Hell? because the bible says so? Because they didnt believe in god? Couldnt be, because the idea of god wasnt even made yet.It says its bad to kill in the bible, yet SO many wars were fought for it, and people were executed for believing in another religion other than christianity.
Look at the crusades or whatever... Most christians are ignorant and dont respect or research other religions, My dad served in iraq, and for his dogtag they wouldnt let him put his religion. My dad fought for it and eventually got it. I respect all religions, anything you believe is real to you.
I myself am buddhist (only 14) just started. And i get made fun of and i avoid telling people at school or anything like that. They just dont understand it, they arent educated on it.|||because christianity is the ultimate practice of hypocrisy.
it is a religion which teaches the beliefs of tolerance, forgiveness, love, and acceptance.
what does it breed?
hatred, intolerance, and grudges.
christians, on principal, believe the opposite of what they preach. very few christians are actually what they claim to be. but on average they are uneducated on anything except the violence, distrust, and intolerance which was bred into them|||I'm a Buddhist, let people call it what they will. Let's just work together for peace.|||Funnily enough, there's plenty of Christians that don't consider Christianity a religion either.
Some do it because according to their beliefs, either you believe in Jesus or you go to hell. End of story. There's no room for tolerance or acceptance of others views as valid, hence every othe teaching is false.|||It's mainly due to the cultural distance and ego of many Christians. As you see, the leading countries in 19th %26amp; 20th Century are mostly Western, Christian %26amp; White ppl living countries. Buddhism is there mainly in Asia- where always disturbed by a lot of social %26amp; political conflicts of these centuries. (Actually, most of them created by the so called world leaders of that times- it’s a separate issue)
Therefore, Christian Civilization dominates over the other ancient Civilizations (many times, they destroyed those civilizations) %26amp; for the very reason they think that, all other religious/ spiritual ideologies %26amp; cultures they don't understand are false and fail - the Religion they believe in is the only truth %26amp; have superiority over all others.
Another thing is, when one believes in a god- if he is god fearing too- he will always see all other beliefs are false. That is a fundamental thing- there should be one truth- If my one is true, so others must be false- Problem is, they many people don’t think or don’t want to know which one could be true. Even more serious issue is Lack of attitude %26amp; curtsy of some people to accept different ideas. It's common for hard core believers in any god religion. The most serious issue with Buddhists is there's no god in Buddhism (If there was a god may be they could think, it's the same god but true believers are them)
See my opinion about religion in my answer to another Yahoo Question (18th answer here)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtCvwpbquE6_N75udWtciGYjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20090730012934AAet2iC|||I'm Buddhist and I consider it a religion. But yes, I see a lot of misconceptions here from a lot of people, not just Christians, regarding both Buddhism and Hinduism. Buddhism isn't difficult to understand, I don't know where the breakdown in communication is.|||Actually, I've been leaning towards and studying Buddhism and am probably going to convert to it, and I have to inform you that most Buddhists practice it as a religion. It's only Western ones who don;t.|||I'm a Christian and I don't call every other belief system false. So, who are you speaking of? Let's do ourselves the favor of steering clear of generalizations.|||I think you can apply it as a philosophy or actually practice it as a religion.|||Maybe you should enlighten us. Any "doctrine" that teaches anything other than Salvation by Grace is a false religion. Its that simple.|||It's called "projection" :)|||Because they are agreeing with the Buddhists...? ;-)|||Buddhism is a religion.
And I don't care what Christians think.|||Yeah Christians should be ok with Buddhists, they technically don't have a god, so it doesn't mess with the first four commandments.
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