How Buddhism Fails

And why Christianity is worse

The destruction of a Buddha statue in Afghanistan by the Taliban (https://lennonwall.aauni.edu/the-return-of-afghanistans-buddhas/)

According to Christians, without the ritual blood sacrifice of God’s incarnate form we are all doomed to an eternity of hell. Without the death of Jesus there would be no point in creating the Christian religion, because we would all be on a literal highway to hell.

Kill the Buddha. This phrase illustrates what Buddhism truly represents, before humans created a religion around the historical Buddha. We like to turn everything into a religion; football, fishing, profit. We like to worship something that promises to save us from our pain and suffering. We suffer most when we experience death in our lives, and religion helps us to make sense of death. It provides rituals that comfort us in time of need. I think most people simply use religion as a way to keep despair at bay.

Buddha consistently told his followers that the practices he taught, the Dharma, were simply a raft. “I shall show you how the Dhamma is similar to a raft, being for the purpose of crossing over, not for the purpose of grasping.” Buddhism is a raft that allows us to float from one shore to the other. That is all. When we get there, we shouldn’t haul the raft around and worship it. We should let someone else use it. The two shores in this analogy are sleep, which is dangerous, on one side and being awake, which is peacefulness, on the other…