After much thought about these things I have a few observations:
Having been raised Catholic, I was taught that the reason for suffering was not trusting in God or somehow not doing enough penance etc. etc. Buddhism has a whole set of beliefs that fall along the same lines in terms of the causes of suffering except that we are fully responsible for our suffering (even though I think Catholicism has the same concept just differently stated). If one is an atheist, hell is here and we can either work to change it or just live with it and die. In the end, we all suffer, we all have some different degrees of what we believe our responsibilities are in creating it and that in some ways our actions or lack thereof create a hellish existence........Does anyone else see the correlations here? Namaste
2007-07-20
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