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**agildeta** · 02-25-2012, 06:41 AM

Hmm that is a good question, it has taken me sometime to think about it, there are many reasons that came to mind. (all of these are my opinion, they may be incorrect but no offence is meant to any party)

Firstly Budhism does have the Precepts among other things but from what I have understood, A Buddhist may choose weather or not to live by them, Catholocism on the other hand (from my experience) is cery scornful if you do not live by their rules to the letter.

Gautama was biologically, no different from me or you, he is proven to have existed, his teachings came from his mouth (now the historian in me would say that untill hundreds of years later his teachings where no written down, word of mouth being an unreliable source even from the war so how can it be reliable over several hundreds of years), with catholocism, it came from A God, who has not been proven to exist and maybe never will be proven to exist.

From what I gather part of Buddhism is questioning things having your own perception where as catholcism has no room for opinion and questioning.

I dont know, all I do know is I dont feel comfortable with the Catholocism and Buddhism just feels right.

02-25-2012, 06:41 AM	#7
agildeta Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	Hmm that is a good question, it has taken me sometime to think about it, there are many reasons that came to mind. (all of these are my opinion, they may be incorrect but no offence is meant to any party) Firstly Budhism does have the Precepts among other things but from what I have understood, A Buddhist may choose weather or not to live by them, Catholocism on the other hand (from my experience) is cery scornful if you do not live by their rules to the letter. Gautama was biologically, no different from me or you, he is proven to have existed, his teachings came from his mouth (now the historian in me would say that untill hundreds of years later his teachings where no written down, word of mouth being an unreliable source even from the war so how can it be reliable over several hundreds of years), with catholocism, it came from A God, who has not been proven to exist and maybe never will be proven to exist. From what I gather part of Buddhism is questioning things having your own perception where as catholcism has no room for opinion and questioning. I dont know, all I do know is I dont feel comfortable with the Catholocism and Buddhism just feels right.
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