Women are not permitted to speak in churches 1 Corinthians 14:35

[Manifestor_of_Light]

34. I wish they had the guts to edit out the bad stuff.

And the contradictory stuff. And have a consistent set of rules.

Why don't they just turn their scriptures into a small pamphlet with the sermon on the mount, judge not lest ye be judged, and as you did it unto the least of them, so also you did it unto me, and the other good parts?

Instead of just ignoring the bad and cruel and contradictory stuff? Like the family values of incest with Lot's daughters?


For instance, there is nothing in Hinduism or Buddhism (I have studied both of them) that is contradictory where they have to say "Oh, Lord Buddha didn't really mean that when he said such-and-such" or "Krishna really didn't mean such-and-such".

Besides, you can be an atheist and a Buddhist too. Buddha said gods were irrelevant when he was asked about them. He said he wanted to teach people about how to live their lives, not worry about gods or an afterlife. And that kind of a practical philosophy about how to act appeals to me because you don't have to debase yourself worshiping some petty little god that must be fawned over. Since he was raised Hindu, he basically got rid of the gods and distilled Hinduism down to dharma (the truth or the teachings), karma and reincarnation.

But I digress on Eastern religions that seem to make a lot more sense. I think of the gods and goddesses as archetypes of various human qualities. You could analogize the Virgin Mary to Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, if you wanted to.