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I'm Buddhist, and it's always struck me as odd that so many religious people require their text to be literally true.
If it were to be definitively proven that the person called Jesus Christ never existed as a historical person on earth, the various Christian churches and organizations would stop at nothing to attempt to discredit this. They would be furious.
On the other hand, if it were definitively proven that Siddartha Gautama, the person who will be called the Buddha, never existed as a historical person on earth, most Buddhists would find it interesting, probably even humorous, and would go on happily practicing Buddhism.
That's very interesting to me. I dont know anything about Buddhism, can you explain why Buddists wouldn't be affected much if they found out their relifious figure never existed? I think for christians it would be devastating because it would mean all the promises the bible makes wouldn't come true, like a rewarding after life for it's followers and a punishing afterlife for non-believers. FYI I'm athiest, but I find religion and it's verious practices to be fascinating.
This is why Christianity is so scummy. The only reason these shit heels “give back” is because they expect to he rewarded for it. Oh no, we can’t just be kind to be kind, we do it because we are promised something on the back end. Same energy and douchebags who record themselves donating to say the homeless. It’s all about what they get out of the transaction. A fucking pat on the back.
Even worse, in its effort to capture even the shittiest people, Christianity has created a loophole where its believers can deliberately be shitty while expecting everything to be ok if they confess and repent before the end. Like a divine "sorry you're upset with what I did".