Yeah Buddhism has elements of religion but also lacks other parts you expect in a religion.

so she comes from a hindu background but she is more Buddhist and also reads the vedas

I think that they are all wrong precisely because they have religious tendencies. Except Buddhism actually.

well you can't be wrong if you don't ever put your money on the table

Buddhism encourages the thing I dislike religion for. Introspection and exploration.

Religion almost universally shackles you.

Tells you to introspect everything BUT THE RELIGION.

I don't like blindspots.

buddhism has its own dogma

do you think gandhi was a saint

That dude was not what the history books teach you

My family was destroyed by religion as well, so despite growing up a devout zealous protestant Christian, I now abhor it.

I'm sorry to hear that

Gandhi was a man, who had some wise insight. I don't care how horrible he wqs because I do not follow him as an example. I do take his wisdom though.

he was a pedophile for starters

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and he helped instigate the war between India and Pakistan

But yeah. Religion murders and kills, and drives families to betray each other. The power dynamic is too prone to abuse.

My mother would not be an orphan and would have a brother if not for fucking Radio Church of God

And might not have been so mentally and physically abused.

Religion also organizes society to realize greater modes of thought and understanding

It can, but so can other things.

I mean it's easy to criticize the dead and buried on top of the mountain which their deeds built

Religion forgets itself because it prohibits questioning.

much of democracy around the world comes from judeo-christian principles

It doesn't think to restrain itself, because it isn't allowed to judge.

religion does not prohibit questioning idk why you think that

that's not a component of religion, that's a human component

It absolutely does. That is the root of religion.

An idea that is absolutely true and cannot be false, ever.

So everything can be rationalized or ignored.

no, the root of religion is to presently act as if something is true, to prove that it is cumulatively true

that's all there is to it

and there's no part of that logic that requires a lack of questioning

you just have to continue the act

Your world must be nice as fuck dude.

What I have seen highlights the structure that religion, at least organkzed religion, creates and necessitates.

I mean, one of the areas of humanity that becomes polluted with dogma, is language. And so I like to defend the principles of language to be as pure as possible, because it serves no more useful purpose otherwise.

to do something religiously, does not mean you cannot question the purpose behind what you are doing, those concepts are no co-dependent in any way

I gave a philosophy thesis/presentation on that topic.

I say thesis but it was more like detailed research, no experiments