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Originally Posted by SirArthur  So, if all religions assume a Buddhist-like behavior I won't bother with them nor bother them anymore. |
Are you SURE you want Christian metaphysics replaced by Buddhist metaphysics? It's not appreciably more rational, even if historically it has not caused as much atrocity.
I can think of few examples of the foolishness and irrationality of Buddhist metaphysics, than the way in which the Dalai Lama reached office. You see, the 13th Dalai Lama had died in 1933 and the monks who ran Tibet started roaming Tibet for his reincarnation, each armed with one or two of the late Dalai Lama's things. In 1937 a monk entered a hovel where a 2-year-old boy named Lhamo Thondup spotted what the monk carried and said "That's mine!"
Yep. You heard that right. A two-year-old laying claim to some trinket, identified him ... in terms of Buddhist metaphysics, wherein people are reincarnated repeatedly ... as the ruler of Tibet.
It's not a Monty Python skit. It really happened. I am NOT kidding. The people of Tibet REALLY chose their ruler that way.
Make sense? Only if you accept the veracity of Buddhist metaphysics, but even then I can't see it as anything other than irrational. If you think the world would be better off in the hands of people who think this way ... well, best of luck to you. As for me, I stand by my earlier statement that humanity would be FAR better off without ANY of this nonsensical metaphysical crap.