Ayo13945:
Why do most Atheist find it easier to accept a
religion like Buddhism, but are less tolerant
to Abrahmaic Religions such as: Christianity,
Islam or Judaism.

In essence what appeal does Buddhism have that
the Big 3 (Religions) don't.

Ayo13945:
Why do most Atheist find it easier to accept a
religion like Buddhism, but are less tolerant
to Abrahmaic Religions such as: Christianity,
Islam or Judaism.

In essence what appeal does Buddhism have that
the Big 3 (Religions) don't.

Dtruthspeaker:


Can you expect thieves, liars and lovers of evil things to love anti-evil system of living?

Ayo13945:
Why do most Atheist find it easier to accept a
religion like Buddhism, but are less tolerant
to Abrahmaic Religions such as: Christianity,
Islam or Judaism.

In essence what appeal does Buddhism have that
the Big 3 (Religions) don't.

1Sharon:


The Abrahamic religions have been a source of hatred, division and violence in this Earth

Buddhism is peaceful.

jaephoenix:

You never disappoint, do you?
Oh, I think Adolf Hitler was an atheist… oh wait!

Dtruthspeaker:


You people were already violent and divided before Abraham came as proven by the tales of the nations God wiped out eg Sumeria (Ur)

LordReed:


I dunno about less tolerant but Buddhism is a more open experience and a little more honest than the Abrahamic religions.

KnownUnknown:


What do more open experience and a little more honest mean?

LordReed:


The practice of Buddhism is not as rigid as Christianity and they don't take their tomes as indelible historical narratives.

KnownUnknown:



It seems they have a lot of sects in Buddhism, each with it own perspective, which is similar to the Christians, Muslims, or any religion that has existed long enough. How are they not as rigid or flexible as the rest of them?
I also think you are painting them with a broad brush regarding how they consider their tomes. It’s not far fetched that some consider them indelible particularly those containing “detailed analysis” of the nature, origin, and interaction of material and psychological phenomena.


https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/is-there-a-buddhist-bible/

Since Buddhism is really a family of religions rather than a single spiritual system, there isn’t one single set of scriptures considered authoritative by all Buddhist groups. Each Buddhist tradition follows its own scriptural “canon” (collection of foundational texts) and has produced a mountain of commentary and teachings based on those canons.

Theravada Buddhists root their practices in the Pali canon, which includes some of the earliest-dated Buddhist texts, recorded in an ancient Indian language called Pali. These scriptures are known as the Tipitaka (“Three Baskets”) because they include three major groups of texts. The “Sutta Pitaka” contains the suttas (Sanskrit, sutras) or recorded discourses of the Buddha and some of his disciples; the “Vinaya Pitaka” contains the Buddha’s code of discipline for his monastic community; and the “Abhidhamma Pitaka” contains a detailed analysis of the nature, origin, and interaction of material and psychological phenomena. Scholars generally date this last group of texts to a few hundred years after the Buddha’s death, perhaps between the third and first century BCE.

The Chinese canon, the body of scriptures that is considered authoritative by East Asian Buddhist traditions (including Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese), was likely recorded between the first century BCE and the fifth century CE. There’s plenty of overlap between the Chinese and Pali canons (for instance, the Chinese canon contains a version of the suttas, the Buddha’s discourses, known as the agamas), but they part in crucial doctrinal ways, too. The Tibetan canon, split into the Kangyur (what’s considered the word of the Buddha) and the Tengyur (later commentaries), also overlaps with the Chinese canon and contains its own unique scriptures, including the tantra texts.

Some other schools of Buddhism base their practices and doctrines on specific sutras or treatises. Nichiren Buddhism, for instance, is founded on a scripture known as the Lotus Sutra, and chanting the sutra’s title is a principal part of the practice. Pure Land Buddhists, meanwhile, study three sutras that concentrate on a buddha known as Amitabha, or the Buddha of Infinite Light, who is said to reign over the “pure land,” a kind of Buddhist heaven where conditions for attaining enlightenment are favorable.

KnownUnknown:
Monks incited a deadly four-day rampage against minority Muslims in central Myanmar, Reuters found. The killings come amid the rapid spread of an apartheid-like movement known as 969.


The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck.
“If you follow us, I’ll kill her,” the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city in central Myanmar.
https://www.pulitzer.org/files/2014/international-reporting/reuters/04reuters2014.pdf

Ayo13945:
Why do most Atheist find it easier to accept a
religion like Buddhism, but are less tolerant
to Abrahmaic Religions such as: Christianity,
Islam or Judaism.

In essence what appeal does Buddhism have that
the Big 3 (Religions) don't.

LordReed:


Glad I didn't say they were any less prone to violence. LoLz.

1Sharon:


And you ppl are still violent after Abraham came and went.

KnownUnknown:
Monks incited a deadly four-day rampage against minority Muslims in central Myanmar, Reuters found. The killings come amid the rapid spread of an apartheid-like movement known as 969.


The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck.
“If you follow us, I’ll kill her,” the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city in central Myanmar.
https://www.pulitzer.org/files/2014/international-reporting/reuters/04reuters2014.pdf

triplechoice:


I don't think anything that happened in that story has anything to do with the rellgion.

Buddhism advocates for the sanctity of human and animal life and for this, they are mostly vegetarians.

The monks and the other adherents , in the report, are humans who reacted under immense pressure . The story says a monk was killed first and I think they couldn't control their emotions in such circumstances and went amok.

KnownUnknown:


Yeah, no true Scotsman. Same ol’ song.

triplechoice:

Lol. I'm not a Buddhist. What you picked out from that article doesn't address the op and I think it was an attempt to look for something anywhere as support for one thing, "every rellgion is the same'.

"The danger of a single story" chimamanda Adichie

triplechoice:


There are all manner of persons within any group.

KnownUnknown:


I didn’t say you were a Buddhist nor do I care if you are. I’m not an atheist but I was addressing Lordreed’s opinions and posted the violence to point out they can be just as violent as the Abrahamic ones..

Every religion is they same as they are all certain people’s opinions at the end of the day.

Ayo13945:
Why do most Atheist find it easier to accept a
religion like Buddhism, but are less tolerant
to Abrahmaic Religions such as: Christianity,
Islam or Judaism.

In essence what appeal does Buddhism have that
the Big 3 (Religions) don't.