Christianity Is an Empty Box

De: Osho

Narrado por: Osho

Man has come of age, and does not need old, superstitious religions which are not relevant to contemporary people anymore. Yet, religious establishments try everything to revive and keep these religions alive on artificial life support—we see fundamentalist movements reborn all over the world. People do realize that religion is an empty box. Today's times need a more scientific approach for exploring our inner beings. That will be possible only if we get rid of our old habits. And they are very sticky, because for thousands of years the same habits have been practiced by so many generations of people. It is time to drop them as quickly as possible. A fascinating talk by Osho which will help to deepen our understanding of the world today.

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Christianity without the miracles is an empty box fit to be discarded.

A follower mentions that a Christian leader made the claim that even if Jesus never existed and all the miracles are fake he still would be a Christian. Osho then goes on to tell a story about Buddha where a woman wanted her son raised from the dead and Buddha told her to bring two seeds from a house where no one had ever died, she eventually came back after not finding a house where no one had ever died and acknowledged to Buddha that he had clarified the nature of reality to her and thanked him. The point made here was if Jesus raised Lazareth from the dead and then he brought him back he wouldn't be the exact same person. Anyone that died and came back would be completely different. Jesus did a miracle and Buddha taught truth. If you stripped Jesus of his miracles he would just be a man and if your stripped Buddha of his miracles nothing would change at all, his truth would still stand. This speech ends with him talking about questions and how eventually the person seeking knowledge will stop asking questions and just know the truth. That between belief and trust that the practitioner will have trust rather than belief. Belief has a seed of doubt inside of it and he wants everyone to come to truth through experience and thus find trust. The main take away is that if the believers of Christianity feel it necessary to fill the Christian box up with philosophy or tidbits from other religions than it's not really Christianity anymore and to pour it all out and save the empty box filled with ethics or a way of life is pointless, why not throw the box away at that point. He basically claims that Christianity is a broken and dying religion that should be discarded.