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DirtyOldPanties t1_iqx77ia wrote

Why do people entertain themselves with religious philosophy? The one I dislike the most is Buddhism because it has managed to cultivate this image of a peaceful philosophy that can lead an individual to happiness. But the issue is that like all religious philosophies they rely on non-rational means to knowledge, they rely on claims without evidence from scriptures and as a result they're no different than other religions in that they're all based on unsubstantiated and arbitrary propositions. Yet people treat them with intellectual kids gloves instead of telling them Santa and Buddha isn't real.

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Lumpy-Passenger-1986 t1_iqx8ivl wrote

I guess it’s simply because the faith comes from the belief. They believe it is true. They believe it is real. Their entire philosophy is built upon that belief. For them maybe it’s not entertaining themselves, it’s just out of pure belief that what was told will happen. And as much as facts are thrown at them, they don’t interpret them as facts, but instead as either nonsense or inconsequential to their truth.

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