The Christianity most people believe is analogous to that picture of Jesus that looks like he belongs in a Breck hair ad. You know the one, where he looks like an enraptured Norwegian instead of a middle eastern Jew?
In other words, most Christians are taught a whitewashed version of Christianity which forgets much of the politically incorrect aspects of not just the Old Testament, but the New Testament as well.
Do you believe in demons? Jesus did, according to The Bible. Not only that, on one occasion when he found some demons, he didn't just neutralize them or send them away. No, he instead moved them into a bunch of pigs and drove them over a cliff. It's hard to be a Christian and an animal lover at the same time when you read that one.
But Christianity is hardly unique there. Buddhism didn't start out as a religion, it started out as a philosophy of life, of how to be happy. Basically, Siddhartha said, "You want to be happy? Stop wanting to be happy. Stop craving things. Stop craving even happiness itself. Craving and wanting are the source of unhappiness."
Yeah, there was no God in early Buddhism. But, people seem to want a higher power, so eventually Siddhartha was converted into Buddha, a God unto himself in many respects, and a bunch of highly unlikely stories grew up around him (e.g., he wasn't born but instead arrived on a heavenly elephant).
When that wasn't enough, then some of the local Hindu gods became Buddhist divinities as well.
I don't believe in God. Some people say, "How can you look at the miracle of The Cosmos and life and not believe in God?" To me, God is an explanation, and when there is an explanation, there is no miracle. It's much more miraculous to my mind to consider that The Cosmos and life simply happened.
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