Some Catholic articles on Buddhism

I found these rather amusing. One from the catholic encyclopedia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03028b.htm

"The consentient testimony of witnesses above the suspicion of prejudice establishes the fact that at the present day Buddhist monks are everywhere strikingly deficient in that moral earnestness and exemplary conduct which distinguished the early followers of Buddha. In short, Buddhism is all but dead. In its huge organism the faint pulsations of life are still discernible, but its power of activity is gone. The spread of European civilization over the East will inevitably bring about its extinction."

The other is by "His Holiness", the one who lives in an enormous palace in order to teach people about [Bohdisattva?] Christ:

http://www.tcrnews2.com/Buddhism.html

"The more we are liberated from these ties, the more we become indifferent to what is in the world, and the more we are freed from suffering, from the evil that has its source in the world."

However innumerable sentient beings are, I vow to save them.
However inexhaustible the defilements are, I vow to extinguish them.
However immeasurable the dharmas are, I vow to master them.
However incomparable enlightenment is, I vow to attain it.

In Buddhism everyone is getting saved; in Catholicism all the infidels are going to hell and the Buddhists are the indifferent ones... Funny, no?

 

This is merely the though patterns of one supposed scholar. There are six billion people in the world.

 

wow haha.

This was a very, very interesting passage to read,

Namaste,
Diana

 

These articles are no different from having ones in-laws critiqing ones marriage. Real respect, something the Church does not now and will never have, for human, and all of life, teaches to live and let live.

 

To be fair, no, not "all infidels go to hell". You have sex beforeyou're married (I personally think that as long as you're in love, then if you feel it's right and are ready, go for it),it's "a sin". You don't go to hell for one sin, my friend.I knwo what you mean, thoough

 

Just to say that article are an other form of propaganda. Of course all chrisitans do not think as that articles say. Question of interpretaion of the teaching maybe?

(and I'm living everyday with church ppl for something like a month)

I think Christ alive woul repprobate such an article as they liked to write

Stay in Peace

 

im really confused.. the words didnt make sense to me, can somebody explain it differently?

 

That was amazingly untrue down to the last period in the text.