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Aligns with their religion:
https://suttafriends.org/sutta/sn11-16/
The boss of all the gods in heaven is lectured by the Buddha who states that giving stuff to his monks results in more merit than any god.
To be clear this was kinda a big deal for those polytheists. Giving a sacrifice to a god was a transactional act. I burn this incense or leave this bowl of food out for you, you make sure my kid doesn't die from this illness. When Buddhist pushed people to instead view the Sangha as the place for donations they weren't simply asking people to switch which shaman they were going to, they were asking them to shoulder on another one.
I don't often see people gatekeeping a religion as open-ended as Buddhism but here we are.
I'm not gatekeeping at all. That's a simple factual statement. I don't look down on them, they do good things, so does the Catholic church.
Real Buddhism is not a religion. It has no baggage. It's a practice. People who do the practices are Buddhists without needing to say. They simply are, you are what you DO. Not what you say.
The entire dhamma could be obliterated and it could be regenned with the practice.
Zen Flesh Zen Bones has an account of that... Monk sees master burning the books... "What are you doing?!"
Master says, "What are you saying?"
Religious people have holy things, practicers don't.
Try remaking a religion from scratch with prayer.
So religions are what they are, not my cup of tea. Static, unyielding to change. Outdated.
Can't gatekeep the truth.
Real Buddhism yes of course. I suppose "real" Buddhism doesn't follow any of the dhrama texts.
Real Buddhism generated the texts, which were written down by the kind of people who rote-memorise.
It's handy to have them, but possibly limiting as one goes.
Ok well "real" Buddhism who wrote the texts were very clear about the existence of Gods and the afterlife