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20 June 2016

Buddhism (not the Hollywood version)

Buddhism has become popular in the US in recent years, largely because of the influence of several Hollywood stars. However, what they espouse is just a watered-down, Americanized version.

It's not just a matter of having more good karma than bad; in Buddhism's various Asian forms, there's no difference between "good" and "bad" karma. All karma will keep a soul trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth. After sometimes millions of these rebirths, the soul may reach Nirvana, which is a state of perfect nothingness into which the soul is irrevocably dissolved.

Millions of years of pain followed by nonexistence: that's Buddhism in a nutshell. It's a philosophy of death, not a set of feel-good beliefs designed for rich white people. And it's completely opposed to Christianity.

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