I'm not a terribly religious guy but if anyone had it mostly right philosophically I'd say it was Buddha -- basically... it's all on you to figure it out for yourself but you actually HAVE the power to do it as an individual... and humans have the power to discern what is right on their own.
To Christians & most other modern mono-theists humans are helpless & terribly flawed creatures who can do nothing without God... I find that very counter-productive to advancing our species & insulting to our capabilities.
IMO... but if you are happy believing what you do & don't push it down peoples throat / attack others based on your beliefs I don't care what you believe... whether is be Jesus, Allah, or the flying spaghetti monster.
1st. its the Dome anything goes.
2nd. Doubtless, there is a tendency with us all to wish to impose our opinions upon others,
by all available means. The exaggeration of anxiety for our fellow-men would lead us
to adopt wrong means to make them of a right opinion; we forget that men’s
consciences and judgments are never touched by such rude or vulgar means as
threats or penalties. We should always feel that consciences and hearts are under the
jurisdiction of the Most High, and in no sense whatever are they to be brought under
the jurisdiction of Pope or potentate, or any one of us, no matter how orthodox we
may conceive ourselves to be. Strive earnestly for your faith, but strive lawfully
Charles Hadden Spurgeon.
3rd. One walking with me observed, with some emphasis, “I do not believe as you do. I am
an Agnostic.” “Oh,” I said to him. “Yes. That is a Greek word, is it not? The Latin
word, I think, is ignoramus.” He did not like it at all. Yet I only translated his
language from Greek to Latin. These are ***** waters to get into, when all your
philosophy brings you is the confession that you know nothing, and the stolidity
which enables you to glory in your ignorance. Spurgeon as well.
Last Spurgeon Quote...
I confess that when I have to argue about the truth of divine things it is a dreary task
to me. I am so sure of these things myself, by living and actual test, that I wonder
other people are not sure too; and while they are wanting me to argue about this
point or that it seems to me like asking a man to prove that there is a sun in yonder
sky. I bask in his beams, I swoon under his heat, I see by his light; and yet they ask
me to prove his existence! Are the men mad? What do they want me to prove? That
God hears prayer? I pray and receive answers every day. That God pardons sin? I
was in my own esteem the blackest of sinners, and sunk in the depths of despair, yet
I believed, and by that faith I leaped into a fullness of light and liberty at once. Why
do they not try it themselves?
I wish I had the answer to your philosophical view on Buddah but here is one in General
This is the cardinal virtue of philosophers; they extinguish one another. Their
fine-spun theories do not often survive the generation that admires them. A fresh
race starts fresh theories of unbelief, which live their day, like ephemera, and then
expire. I lied that's the last Spurgeon Quote.