Humans are very similar to each other in many ways. When we get sick, we often have the same symptoms: runny nose, fever, coughing, sore throat. Religious experience is similar. It’s not a big deal if a lot of humans hallucinate in similar ways.
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That's it, right there. That last snarky sentence is why you will reincarnate and suffer through more lives before you reach what you would understand to be "heaven".
By choosing to regard your fellow humans as though they have nothing of substance to offer, you are walling yourself off from truths. You are the rich man who will not enter the city because you won't take the saddlebags off your camel so it can fit through the narrow opening known as the eye of the needle. You are the professor full of your own speculations and assumptions who will be unable to learn Zen because you cannot empty your cup.
When you figure out the Golden Rule doesn't mean trashing every other tradition, you'll be on the right path. When you figure out that the Golden Rule means learning every tradition with a receptive mind that is also guarded by robust discernment, you'll be ready to start walking that path. Until then, you are a part of the problem that my work will cure on a long enough time line.
Dogmatists like you will dwindle in numbers until you are no bigger than the KKK is today.
The golden rule is shit and retarded. “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Pretty dumb. A hormonal teenage girl can dismantle the golden rule by just talking to you about love languages 🤣
Some like receiving gifts. Others like words of affirmation. If you follow the golden rule, then you’ll give gifts to people who want verbal reassurance simply because you like receiving gifts. Not a great recipe for satisfying relationships.
Consider a better rule like the silver rule. Be the type of person you’d like to associate with. A more practical rule to follow that leads to more harmony and satisfying relationships. But religion says…. Yea yea enjoy your altered and corrupted thousand year old books
Well they all have a version of the Golden Rule and for good reason.
You have a lot of assumptions baked into your perspective which is ultimately rooted in willful ignorance.
You don’t know my past nor do you know what I have focused upon in my studies.
Because you think you know me, you won’t actually know me.
Likewise, because you think you know what all of these religions are about, you will not know what they are about.
Have fun suffering through your next life. You won’t be as wealthy in the next one.
You don’t know my past either but I don’t claim to know yours or claim to know all the religions. You don’t know all the religions either. You can spend your entire life studying all these religions and you’ll run out of time before you learn them all.
But what’s the point of all that? You’re chasing your own tail. Where is the evidence that any of these religions are anything but manmade? There is none. If there is show me. If there isn’t, then I have no reason to waste my time studying.
Right, you’re prejudiced, ignorant, and lazy. You also have made up your mind. You’re a waste of time.