Just Thinking...

Religious Thoughts

See a recent video I linked

Just a small comparative-religious thought to put this cartoon more in perspective. In Buddhist thinking there isn’t really anything considered truly evil. In fact, if someone dies, is tortured, is born mentally retarded (and the like), this is merely their[1] karma working itself out. Something the child who is sexually molested – say, at age 9 – is molested because of something the child did (or the parents, or the molester, or a combination of many factors) in his or her past demanded that this horrible offense play itself out now.

I sometimes laugh when a new ager, a Hindu, or a Buddhist says that the Roman Catholic Church shouldn’t have had done evil and killed during its tenure on earth. First of all, good and evil are a theistic philosophical position! Pantheists and atheists cannot take such a dogmatic stance on telling others that they must accept their position on what is good and evil when they do not posit a universal law and Lawgiver. It is borrowing from the Judeo-Christian worldview and using it in their worldview even though they do not support such a moral statement… without disproving their own religious beliefs at their most fundamental levels.

Secondly, these people murdered did something that put them in their circumstances of working out their own karma. And as Buddha said, each man is an island unto himself. In other words, you cannot interfere with another person’s karma… which is why the Buddhists and Hindu “priests/holy-men” most often times ignore the plight around them. It is because of their religious views.

PapaG

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[1] I use “their” with the understanding that there is no real person that “melds” into the ultimate reality… according to Buddhist thought.