I agree with you Joe, that if you take as your baseline approach those values espoused by Jesus in that Sermon, and seek to return to them in spite of all set-backs, that you are thereby practicing right living.

I can do without most of what the organization came up with after that date, but we certainly agree on those fundamentals. And in fact I think the problem with any religion is not even with its fundamentalists, but with those who constitute its fanatic sector.

Even a fanatic Buddhist (although I have never heard of such a thing) would leave more of a stain than a blessing on the world.

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