Category Archives: Buddhism

Reincarnated Buddhist Leader Leaves Buddhism

By Daniel Florien on June 11, 2009 in Buddhism, Oh the Stupidity!, Religion.

Say what you will in defense of Buddhism, I still think the Dalai Lama and his monks are weird. I feel bad for this kid:
As a toddler, he was put on a throne and worshipped by monks who treated him like a god. But the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader [...]

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Why I Ditched Buddhism

By Daniel Florien on April 29, 2009 in Buddhism, Religion.

Here’s an article by John Horgan on why he ditched Buddhism:
Four years ago, I joined a Buddhist meditation class and began talking to (and reading books by) intellectuals sympathetic to Buddhism. Eventually, and regretfully, I concluded that Buddhism is not much more rational than the Catholicism I lapsed from in my youth; Buddhism’s moral and [...]

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