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AI find it very odd that you are blaming others for ‘evil’. As I noted in another thread, Buddhism has no belief in evil or good, and has always stated that good and evil are illusions.
That Buddhists don’t believe in good and evil and teach that there is no self, that we are all illusions, has resulted in true, horror in the last century. The books “The Rape of Nanking” and “Zen at War” explain how Buddhist belief that we are all illusions resulted in such monstrous deeds as surgery without anesthesia, medical experiments that were, if anything, worse than anything done by the Nazis, vast numbers of rapes, burying civilians alive, and so on. All due to Buddhist dogmas that insisted there was no such thing as good or evil and there was not even such a thing as self; that you are no-self and so is that person across from you. .
As I noted elsewhere: the most frequent complaint against Buddhism is its utter lack of good effect upon society. Walls enclosed monks, meditating on nothing, while around them people starved, rotted in prisons, were enslaved, lived in misery, in unending centuries…
In the first 500 years of Buddhism, one historian could find only two hospitals to the credit of Buddhists. Two. Two, in five hundred years.
Compare this to Christianity. Even during the early Roman persecutions, every single Catholic church had a charity to feed the poor, and aid the widows and even aid non Christians. During the plague, when the Roman physician Galen fled the city, Christians stayed and gave up their lives taking care of pagans. And speaking of hospitals, pretty much the second the persecutions were over, Christians set up free hospitals. Many historians argue that St. Basil of Caesarea founded the first real hospital in the world in the mid 300s, and thereafter free medical aid was found in Christian hospitals in pretty much every city of size throughout the ancient Roman empire. But of course it wasn’t simply aiding the sick. Christians, for the first time in history, founded homes to take care of the deaf, the mute, and even lepers.
Look, you cannot compare the positive effect, the staggeringly constructive effect, Christianity has had upon the world to the utter void that has been Buddhism. The Catholic church gave the world human rights. The universities. Science. Most of all, the morality, which utterly changed the world for the better. And, of course, hope. God will provide absolute justice to every person who suffered on this earth, will fill hearts battered by lack of love with perfect love, and has given us all eternal life, conquering the ultimate evil, death, forever.
