In high school, I was deeply into the RomanCatholicChurch™, primarily because I was born into it and secondly because I attended a "non-denominational Christian" middle school that, unbeknownst to me upon enrollment, was vehemently anti-Catholic (and thus caused a rebound effect).
Like many good Catholics, I was confirmed in ritualistic fashion and then very quickly stopped attending Sunday mass.
Like a cliché, I ventured into Eastern philosophy/religion. For a while, I was a very big proponent of Buddhism, giving all that talk about it being a "worldview" rather than a "religion". Which is totally rubbish if you read any history. Nonetheless, I often find it amusing to view a Catholic critique against Buddhism.
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Some have proposed the analogy of the world’s religions being as different roads winding up a tall mountain, with God in a cloud at the top awaiting our arrival. The paths are supposedly all man-made conventions reaching to heaven, so no one religion is really any better than the others. However, this misconception overlooks one enormous truth. One religion’s path was not paved by man [UNPROVABLE AXIOM] from the bottom of the mountain to the top, but was paved by God down the mountain to man. That road is Christianity, and it is arrogant [NAME-CALLING] to prefer a man’s path to the one blazed for our sake by God himself.
Buddhism, by contrast, teaches that there is no God and that human destiny lies in reincarnating to suffer until we use the Eightfold Path to kill our individual identity.
[NEGATIVE CONNOTATION-CLUSTERBOMBS]
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Well, glad that's settled, aren't we?
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