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Uncovering the TruthOn the Daily Show tonight Jon Stewart was interviewing this author whose name I cannot recall, but he wrote this book called God Is Not Great and it was basicaly a critical discussion of all religons, but one of the things he was talking about on the interview that he discusses in his book is this whole concept about how all religons have something against the Birth Cannel, and he was talking about how all Gods, any Gods, were all born virgins, and that initially did not sit right with me, though I could not bring to mind imidetatly any examples to go against his, I just found it hard to beleive knowing what I do know about a long list of varrious different cultures, but it just seemed like that was wrong, and I was going to do some reasearch into it, when he began listing the varrious different religons he dicusses in his book and how thier Gods were born and one of them he mentioned was Buddha, though I cannot recall exzactly how he tried to cliam Buddah was convcived, it was accroding to him through some divine inhuman way, and well that triggered something and clicked a memory. That statement was completely false (perhaps not intentionally, on all fairness there is many many different types of Buddisim these days, and all with thier varrying systems of beleif and presepctive) But the original Buddah if you will, he was not born a God at all, he was born a mortal man. He had a human mother, and human father and was born in a human way.
He was a man of flesh and blood, and he was originaly Born Sidhhartha, to make a long story realtively short. His father who was a King I beleive, or some other leader, recivied news from a prophet that his son would either become a Great Leader of Man or a Great Religous Leader, and his father did not want his son to become a pious man because he wanted an hier, so he sought to shelter his son from the world to insure he followed his father's choosen path.
But one day Siddhartha snuck out of the Palace and ventured out into the world and there he was confronted with human suffering for the first time and he was sickened by the things he saw, and decided he was going to find the way to end human suffering, so he forsook his name and his wealth and title and went out humbled into the world, and explored many different religous paths, but found falt in all of them, and he decided then he would create what he called The Middle Way.
It was through a long meditation that he reached the state of Nirvanna and it was then be acssended to the title of Buddah, though it was never his origonal intent to be a "God" persae, nor was it original intent to be worshiped as a God or for men to worship a gods figure. Originaly he just saw himself as a teacher to help guide others to Nirvanna, it was latter follorwers of his that turned him into a God. 11:29 PM - 4/30/2007 - post comment
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