Posts tagged ‘criticism’

After studying religions of the world, Buddhism seems much more advanced than the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). The only thing I can’t understand is the Dalai Lama’s rebirths. For some unclear reason, it’s only men (never women), and they are born in one specific region, not all over the Earth… seems like nonsense.

Also, it’s unclear why the Buddha did not accept the immortality of the soul (with built-in memory for working off karma in the next life), but instead said the soul is like a flame passed from one candle to another. I don’t really get that – how does the memory from previous life preserve to the next one?

buddhist monk child

Christianity says: repent and you will enter Heaven. This applies even to Hitler. Meanwhile, non-Christians will not enter Heaven, such as the murdered Jewish girl, Anne Frank.

The basic question lies in the moral framework itself, which prioritizes correct belief over actual conduct. This reframes morality as loyalty to doctrine rather than as a measure of goodness or compassion.

By this logic, obedience is valued above kindness, submission above fairness, and fear above empathy. So, people who follow such a system have no right to teach non-believers about right and wrong. If a god’s “justice” looks the same as injustice, then the teaching might be wrong – not the people who doubt it.

Dave Mckean
Dave McKean

I asked AI how followers of Abrahamic religions (Old Testament, New Testament, Quran) explain the fact that if you count all those mentioned tribes and who gave birth to whom in the Bible, it results in only 6,000 years, while Earth is actually 4.5 billion years old. AI said, well… religious leaders say not to take the words in the Bible literally, that one day of creation could be equal to a million years… basically, making stuff up… I really hate the fact that when they dont allow women into leadership positions in religious institutions, they follow literal instructions in the Bible, citing the words of the Apostle Paul that women should remain silent in church (1 Cor. 14:34), but when you show them real nonsense and gaps in chronology, they say “you shouldn’t take everything literally”…

Criticism of the Bible.
Criticism of the Bible.