Christian Morality
Derivation of Principles

Chapter 11.
NonChristian Views.

To describe the religious concerns outside Christianity, the boundaries around Christianity need to be clarified. Christianity is a theological religion. This means Christ described the basic principles of morality and spiritual existence. No other religions have such a purpose. The main reason is because the only persons who can produce such theology (the moral world) would never attempt to produce such a description in more than one place.

The significance of the basic theological truth which Christ described is that it allows universal truth to be studied by humans. Such truth evolves and diffuses through society creating increased awareness on subjects related to morality and the spirit world. Social evolution is apparent in attitudes toward slavery and similar injustices. This is not to say the world has made a respectable showing in opposing the major injustices that continue to exist, but only that truth and awareness on the subject is more advanced than it was two thousand years ago. In other words, nowdays the martyrs have to be destroyed in a more concealed manner than crucifying them in public.

Only in one other place is morality considered to be relevant enough to be a significant concern in religion, which is the Moslem religion. But the Moslem religion is a religion of disciplines; it is not a theological religion. Usually, this point is not relevant, because disciplines are at least as effective as theology in improving morality. But there does not appear to be an awareness within the Moslem religion of the theological limitations of the Koran. Even from a distant viewpoint, it is apparent that the Koran does not take an approach that would be needed for the systematic development of basics. To develop basics, a lot fewer words are needed, because the trivia swamps the basics when too many words are used. Someone seemed to know this when they produced the US Bill of Rights with only a handful of words. Certainly, Christ and the writers of the Gospels knew so. Then of course, the method of organizing is critical. Christ demonstrated the most important basics through the examples of his life, the most important of course being his crucifixion for doing good deeds and producing moral truth.

Buddhism is noteworthy for the degree of theological fraud promoted at the top. But just like Christianity, there appears to be an extreme divergence between the results at the bottom of the structure and the theology at the top. Most religions including Christianity and Buddhism are concerned with morality. In both religions, morality has similar characteristics indicating its objective origins. And in both, morality is assumed to solve problems.

The path to life which is hard do find and follow as described by Christ (Mat 7:14) is humane poverty with moral orientation. It might seem that such a path is easy to find. Not if you are looking for it. People do not create their own poverty. Being born into it and finding it are two different things. Under such conditions, people learn to solve problems for each other, which corrects their relationship to each other. And it removes the corruptive influences of power. Power is the positive reinforcement for corruption. Buddhism appears to create sufficient moral orientation to make humane poverty constructive. So the purpose here is not to criticize the moral path of Buddhism being followed by persons in poverty, whatever its limitations might be.

There is however another element to Buddhism, and criticizing it is the purpose here. This element is extending Buddhism beyond the moral influence and into the realm of the spirit world. Acquiring spirit powers through Buddhism has all of the characteristics of corruption. The first problem which raises alarm bells is the way spiritual states are described in Buddhism. There is way too much denial of obvious truths about spiritual existence.

First, people are not described clearly as spiritual beings inside of bodies. The mind and spirit are described as some sort of a quasi material extension of bodies. This mystifies the questions of where spirits came from and why they are in bodies.

Secondly, there is an extreme denial of the make-up of the spirit world. The existence of spiritual beings in the spirit world is more-or-less denied. I have to say more-or-less, because in all religions, descriptions are quite varied, and there are contradictions within descriptions.

Buddhism more-or-less denies the existence of spiritual beings existing independently in the spirit world. It denies the existence of God, satan, demons, angels, etc. Most cultures and most persons have any number of reasons for assuming that such spiritual beings exist. People see evidence of spiritual phenomena; they are taught about spirits in most religions; and logic indicates that spiritual beings would have to exist if anything exists beyond matter.

So there is a lot of denial and self-contradiction in Buddhism omitting the place of spiritual beings in the spirit world. The first question raised is how reliable is the wisdom of the persons who promote such irrationality. The second question is what are the motives for the errors. The intricate tailoring of the errors creates considerable evidence for the motives, as does the logic and standard characteristics of sin.

Spiritual states are denied in Buddhism to conceal the exploitation of spirit powers and the corruptness of the results. There is not a complete awareness with corruption, but there is an inherent need to conceal corruption, even if its true nature is not understood.

The end result of Buddhism is called Nirvana, which is described as nothingness. This description and the surrounding realities indicate that the ultimate method of achieving power through Buddhism is by the spirits of individuals being combined to create beings with heterogeneity of spirit substance. Since spirit substance cannot disappear, it is always owned or acquired by someone. Combining spirit substances creates heterogeneous spirit substance, which is the basis of higher spiritual states.

To openly describe such a process would of course result in much criticism. Who is doing what with that power? How reliable is it? The Buddhist philosophy does not indicate a high degree of wisdom or reliability. It is extremely superficial and not very accurate. The superficiality indicates that it is used for exploitive purposes in gaining a following and support.

For example, Buddhist philosophy starts with four Noble Truths. They say life is suffering; suffering is caused by craving; it can be ended by removing the cause, which ultimately requires following a path to perfection.

To attribute all suffering to craving is not credible. Slavery and all injustices create suffering that is not a result of craving. However, the logic of Buddhism is stretched to say that being a human results from craving. Therefore, all that humans experience is tied to the craving to be a human. This type of logic is not the degree of wisdom that would be desired of gods with spirit powers.

The philosophy of Buddhism is extremely reductionistic. It eliminates most of the subject matter and knowledge that goes with spiritual existence by indicating that there is nothing but a nothingness in the spirit world.

Buddhists admit that people have past lives, but supposedly, a person's mind goes from one life-time to another without spending any time in the spirit world. When nirvana is achieved, the person supposedly disappears into a nothingness.

Such a denial of spiritual beings existing is less credible than total atheistic materialism. To admit that something exists beyond material conditions and then deny all characteristics of spiritual beings, as Buddhism does, is highly self-contradictory.

It appears that Buddhists could not totally deny existence beyond matter, since Buddhism grew out of Hinduism, where spiritual existence is a highly discussed subject. But Buddhism then suppressed all truth about the characteristics of the spirit world. Such an extremely tortured philosophy had the obvious purpose of concealing what occurs in the spirit world. To admit any of it would raise innumerable questions which exploiters did not want to answer.

One thing leads to another in discussing the spirit world. If spirit powers exist, why aren't they being used to solve peoples' problems? This question is the primary attack upon Christianity by atheists. Christianity answers many of the questions and leaves some as mysteries. Buddhism answers very few and pretends that a nothingness in the spirit world leaves no questions to be answered.

Buddhists refer to their blend of material and spiritual reality as "nonduality." But science and common sense find a sharp line between the material and spiritual realities.

What theological Buddhists are really doing is muddying the water to destroy accountability. They do not have realistic explanations. Instead they switch back and forth between alternatives. When they need to justify themselves to draw people in, they pull spiritual or quasi spiritual realities out of their hat. When warding off critics, they deny the realities of the critics as a method of blocking criticism without having to explain their absurdities.

These motives jump to the surface when attempting to discus religion with Buddhists. Very early on, they say they disagree, because they are "nondualists." What they mean is that they do not differentiate between material and spiritual or mental realities. They say all reality is a synthesis in minds. Modern science proves them wrong. It shows how all material realities are related independent of minds. Great effort is made in science to assure researchers' subjectivity does not influence the results. In fact, modern concepts of rationality and objectivity indicate that subjective mental biases corrupt the quality of reality.

The primary corruption being concealed by the nihilism of Buddhism is exploitation. Spirit powers allow exploitation. Power could be used to rearrange matter, but evolution takes care of that subject in the most favorable manner possible.

Basically, there is nothing constructive that can be done with power over other persons. To control people prevents them from solving their problems. If power is used to solve peoples' problems, it must not involve controlling them.

So the Buddhists who acquired spirit powers did not want to explain or justify their powers. Instead they erased all questions on the subject by pretending that there is nothing but a nothingness in the spirit world, which is not credible. Their lack of credibility and coherent philosophy indicates that their spirit powers are used exploitively.

Selfishness is a specific example. The Buddhist philosophy does not describe how to solve problems for persons other than oneself. Injustices create extreme problems for people. Overcoming injustice requires truth and self-sacrifice. How is it done; and why is it done? Buddhists do not say. Christ took up that subject.

Within Buddhism, the lack of realism in overcoming such corruptions as selfishness, exploitation, nihilism, elitism and domination indicates that persons who acquire spirit powers do not have enough wisdom to avoid using their powers in an exploitive manner. Buddhists would say that there is a concern for such corruptions within their philosophy. But corruption cannot be willed away. Overcoming basic corruptions requires a type of social interactions which Buddhists do not develop. They focus on self instead of others. Certainly, they can give examples to the contrary. But examples are not enough. The persons doing the meditating are the well-off ones who are not solving the problems of the needy.

What prevents Buddhists from acquiring higher spiritual states through meditation before overcoming sin? Indications are that nothing does. The evidence is in the corruptions that become visible when problems arise. Buddhist organizations in the west tend to deteriorate into corruption.

It is of the nature of the basic subconscious forces of corruption including domination, exploitation, elitism, etc. that they are not understood by the persons who harbor them. This means corruption would not be absent in the persons who acquire spirit powers through meditation procedures. The inadequacies of the Buddhist philosophy demonstrate that perfection does not go with the spirit powers.

One of the standard counter-arguments to such criticism is to point out all of the corruption in Christianity. The difference is that the corruption in Christianity is not promoted by Christ's teaching. The theology is the point here, not the human results.

Nonduality is used in Buddhism about like infallibility is used in Christianity. It knocks down criticism without rationality. With nonduality, material and nonmaterial existence are said to be one and the same thing. That's as absurd as to say being inside of an automobile and outside of it are one and the same thing.

The purpose of the nonsense is to deny truth about the spirit world. But not all of the truth can be denied. Therefore, when opponents say something about the spirit world, they are knocked down with the nonduality argument. But the promoters of the absurdity have their own jargon for describing effects beyond material existence.

Another theological corruption of Buddhism and many other religions is transcendence theology. It states that spirit powers purify. It exploits the subconscious force of bigotry which creates the assumption that power is virtue, and powerlessness is sin.

The significance of the philosophy of claiming that spirit powers or transcendence purifies is that a group of elitists who have spirit powers (or have transcended) are supposed to be gods over everyone else. Their sin is not sin. Everyone else's virtue is not virtue.

There is a basic philosophical truth which would blow all theological fraud out of the water, but it escapes awareness. Constructivity which solves problems destroys all corruption and creates life. To promote corruption, constructivity has to be suppressed. There is a vein of Buddhism which does just that by claiming that reality can be pretended. If people pretend that they have no problems, then they supposedly have no problems. The only consequence is to suppress constructivity.

There is a tendency to promote corruption under a guise of positivism. Positivism is usually, not always, a ruse to suppress constructivity. Problems have to be looked at before solving them becomes relevant. The process of looking at problems and attempting to solve them is portrayed as negativistic and corrupt by the promoters of corruption. It's stunning how many gullible persons buy into their own destruction by going along with such frauds.

It is often assumed that positivism is virtue and the equivalent of love, while negativism is corruption. Evil persons promote those assumptions to deflect opposition to sin. But in fact, the whole purpose of material life is to overcome sin, and negativism is how it is done. So most, but not all, positivism obstructs the process.

Positivism and negativism are somewhat incompatible; but they both have essential purposes. Therefore, they must be promoted separately, which means at different times.

Positivism is needed for accomplishing complex things with groups. Negativism is needed for correcting errors or corruptions. It is not good to mix negativism with complex interactions, because it is disruptive. It forces everyone to get embroiled in the inanity of a few.

Also, corrupted persons will use squabbles as a disruption tactic. They justify or promote corruption through fights. By getting a battle going, they do or say things which would not normally be acceptable.

So attempts must be made to diminish conflicts in complex social environments. Things which are wrong have to be overlooked to facilitate higher purposes. But the need to suppress negativism under these conditions is all the more reason why the problems must be taken up some other time. This means negativism is needed when circumstances allow.

There is a very strong tendency in the world to avoid negativism in attempts to conceal corruption. See no evil, speak no evil, do no evil is how evil is promoted.

If one person is accountable for corruption, then everyone is accountable. Therefore, corrupted persons will not confront anyone's corruption. When they have to take up differences, they avoid all moral implications. They would rather use an economic explanation for problems. That standard does nothing to diminish conflicts. It forces conflicts underground, where covert degradations are covered with a masquerade of congeniality.

What Christ said was this: "keep salt in your hearts, and you will be at peace with each other." Salt was a metaphor for criticism. He was saying criticism creates peace. It does so by ending conflicts.

Corrupters promote an opposite ethic. Its net effect is that there is no sin but the truth about sin. In other words, every corruption will be ignored, and when someone criticizes a corruption, they produce the only sin.

Christ also said he does not give peace as the world gives peace. The theological explanation is that he gives the Holy Spirit. Is the Holy Spirit salt in our hearts? Christ was teaching human responsibilities. Corrupters give peace through a charade of congeniality. Christ gives peace by overcoming sin with truth.

An example of the charade is reconciliation. In effect, it says everyone must stop arguing. But the only persons who have an argument to make are the victims. So reconciliation says the perpetrators can perpetrate with impunity, and if the victims respond, they are creating trouble. And gullible persons assume that reconciliation is how to create peace.

In ancient times, religion was controlled by satan and the spirit cannibals in an uncontested manner. They created a religion on the basis of pure, unadulterated sin. People were supposed to destroy something in the name of sacrifice as a sign of allegiance to the gods who controlled their lives. Sometimes, as in the Mayan culture, people would murder their children to please the gods. Supposedly, their corn would grow better, or there would be fewer earthquakes or volcanoes. Those forces were driven underground, but sin is still the method of paying homage to the destroyers who control peoples' lives.

Atheistic materialism is as much of a religion as any other. It expresses a position on God, the spirit and morality and enforces the related values with much more impunity than any other religion. Denial of God and the spirit is a position on God and the spirit. On top of that, there are not many atheists who do not know that the spirit world exists; they just lie about it to avoid accountability for the results that come out of the spirit world which they are a part of. The falseness is demonstrated by the fact that the stronghold of atheism is the top of the professions, particularly science, where you are not a part of that group if you don't have spirit powers and get your information through the spirit world. Professionalism is the bliss of power of persons in the spirit world who know how to make sin pay.

When spirit powers are the basis of exploitation, values and standards are realigned for selective advantage. Empty show and glib memorization are promoted in place of real results. Spirit powers do not increase understanding, but they create an unlimited ability to contact realities. What can be done with realities in the absence of understanding? Exploitation is all corrupters gain with their spirit powers. This fact is what people need to realize before rushing to the drug trip religions which offer pie in the sky experiences. And it is the reason why Christ did not create such a religion. Humans need to overcome sin before becoming gods.