News Forum - Buddhist temple warns good people can go to hell for using life support

[Thaiger]

Wat Pa Kramathan, a famous temple in Nakhon Ratchasima, set up an educational centre to disseminate Buddhist teachings. It has installed a sign with an intriguing Buddhist message: “Doing good deeds can lead to hell.” The temple head explained the reasoning behind this unusual warning today, a condemnation of artificial medical life support. Located in … …

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[Karolyn]

"Picture an elderly person, 80 to 90 years old, who has spent their life doing good deeds. When they are in the emergency room, the doctors have to revive them, sometimes causing broken bones, leading to more pain and torment. These situations do not provide peace of mind."

This makes more sense, when you look at it like that.

[Pinetree]

6 hours ago, Karolyn said:

"Picture an elderly person, 80 to 90 years old, who has spent their life doing good deeds. When they are in the emergency room, the doctors have to revive them, sometimes causing broken bones, leading to more pain and torment. These situations do not provide peace of mind."

This makes more sense, when you look at it like that.

Nonsense

[Pinetree]

Yet more Temple, Buddhist, Monk BS. These parasites never cease to amaze with their selfish mystical nonsense. 

[Marc26]

18 hours ago, Pinetree said:

Yet more Temple, Buddhist, Monk BS. These parasites never cease to amaze with their selfish mystical nonsense. 

Fortunately I have a long stated history of hating the Catholic religion I was brought up in

 

Allows me to bash the Monks to my wife as well.   

[Metoo]

1 hour ago, Marc26 said:

Fortunately I have a long stated history of hating the Catholic religion I was brought up in

Allows me to bash the Monks to my wife as well.   

I also have a hatred of ALL religions......biggest evil on the planet.

More death and destruction has been caused by religion than anything else.

All over some fantasy of belief.

Due mostly to lack of education in many parts of the world.

Thais still believe in ghosts...FFS.

It's a long outdated institution that has no place in the real world.

[Smiler]

I remember a saying I learnt as a child concerning religion. ‘If you give a man a fishing rod he will feed his family for a day, if you give a man a fishing net he will feed his family for a week, if you give a man religion he will starve to death praying for a fish’ as said previously religion is a curse on mankind here we are in the 21st century and people are still believing in this clap trap.