Hinduism is more about accepting your lot in life, no matter how untouchable you are.

Paganism is about the most self-servicing - and ill-defined - religion I can think of.

Part of the problem is that people who are Christian, for instance, view something like Buddhism through a Christian lens. I've seen Christians freak out about buddha statues like they were idol-worship.

Not at all what's going on there.

Make Iran Zoroastrian Again

I'll be honest, I don't know shit from zoroastronism.

Zoroastrianism is the Ultima Underworld of religions. You don't know it, but your [Modern Western Religion] had a big Zarathustra shaped hardon

Is basically my understanding of it

Anyway, the key component linking any of these things, and only *remotely* making Buddhism a religion, is the supernatural element - Usually an afterlife.

Buddhism is absolutely a religion. It has gods and afterlives.

Buddhism is a philosophy most traditionally layered atop Hinduism.

Buddhist pillars don't require the supernatural, though.

well... Aside from Nirvana and reincarnation...

@Vigil "People of faith are generally good. I oppose demagogues who bastardise the holy books to fulfil their own bigotry" -- except that's exactly what you did, hateful bigot, when you so dishonestly mangled and misinterpreted a Bible passage, then doubled down and lied some more about it. The truth of the matter is, you've been little but a passive aggressive bigot and bully.

It's like... kinda... almost sorta... but not quite...?

I quoted the Bible

Max calm the fuck down

Am I a bigot if I oppose bigotry? I'm curious

Further., @Vigil , youy are a completely dishonest hypocrite who joins hateful Atheist ideologues who LIE about relgiion, LIE about the Church--like you lied with your abusive, bigoted ideologue out-of context Bible quote--and you say NOTGHING about the MUTLIPLE lies your friends here told.

I'm not even atheist

The truth of the matter is you are not a follower of Christ or his message. You lie about the Bible, you lie about Christians.

I'm agnostic and live in a Christian manner

If I lie about Christians do you deny my assertion that most religious people are generally well-meaning?

@Vigil I didn't say you were an Atheist. I said you were a dishonest bigot who mangkled te Bible on purpose in a malicious way. Which is what you did. You also called me out for bad behavior but refused toa ccknowledge your vicious Atheist bigot friends for THEIR multiple lies. You are a hypocrite, who poses as if you have some values. You do not. You're doing nothing projecting your own bigotry, and that of your friends.

Max, sit the fuck down, mate. Take a breath.

@Vigil I'm not interested in your position that most religious people are well-meaning, because it's not jrelevant to the fact that you and your friends are behaving like a bunch of lying, hateful bullies, and you have one set of standards for them and another for others. You're just a bigot and bully who lies about history and lies about religion, just like the rest. BUt you're real good at playing victim.

If I'm a bigot for standing against supposed Christians making fun of people for being poor and fatherless, then yeah, I'm a bigot

I'm not even a victim here

I just think you're a hypocrite and a bad person

@Vigil You were called out for dishonesty with the Bible, sir. Try being a man and just admitting you were out of line.

I quoted the Bible

Elisha and the Two Bears

@Vigil You LIED with the Bible, and you know it, by quoting out of context, and mischaracterizing it. You're still maintaining that lie. And playing victim.

Max?

You COMPLETELY misdescribed it, and you did it just to be malicious.\

Elisha and the Two Bears is a story where a man is made fun of by children for being bald and he summons two bears to kill them

Where does it say that this room is for repeatedly calling someone a liar until they yield?

It's in the Bible

@Vigil No, that is NOT what the story is about.

23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. 25 And he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

Explain to me how I "read the Bible wrong" please