They must not have the basic faith in the Buddhadhamma that you do. I think that for them it consitutes "doubt in the Buddha's teachings", because they think he was meaning something entirely different based on modern scientific theory, and they're inferring on the sutta based on that, rather than inferring based on the entire Pali Canon and the whole of Buddha's teaching. You can only have faith in the Buddhadhamma and expel all doubt of it by putting everything together in one Dhammic context, and not clinging to scientific theories.Alex123 wrote:Well, should one dismiss things said by the Buddha that one doesn't agree with? Should one change the teaching to suit one's beliefs? Do you think that you know better than the Buddha?clw_uk wrote:Are you really this credulous? I take it then you believe that spirits live in trees, or that the world is flat with a big mountain in the middle
They seem to have cultivated some resent for people of faith, even if these people's faith is grounded in the practical experience of the Dhamma, and not the "belief faith" of Christianity and Abrahmic religions.
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