MIchael:

I would hazard a guess that the reason for most of us is that it is against the incursions of Christianity that most of us had to defend our powers of reason when young. In another land it might have been sharia and the Koran we were made to swallow. Buddhism tends to be much less affronting, since it offers abstract truisms not embedded in iconic pseudo-entities and thus allows you to explore the world with a relatively unbent eye. I have little or no exposure to other major religions suc as SHintoism, Taoism, Confucianism, or Rastafarianism.


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