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Buddhism's Erroneous Beliefs

3. Abhidhamma Pitaka: This volume contains Buddhist philoso-

phy and interpretations of Buddha's sermons.
Today's Buddhist priests regard these texts as holy; they worship
and organize their lives according to them. They portray Buddha as
an actual god (God is surely beyond that!), and for this reason, mod-
ern Buddhists bow before his statues, place before them offerings of

food and flowers, and expect help from them. This is a completely il-
logical practice, however, and anyone who believes that stone or
bronze statues can hear or help is greatly deceived. Later in this book,
we examine these basically pagan practices in more detail, and see
how Buddhism has become a secret doctrine concentrating on human

Priests who translate texts from ancient languages are important in
Buddhism. In the photograph on the facing page, Buddha watches and en-
courages priests doing this work. Below: A Sanskrit text from the 11th cen-
tury contains sections on the life of Buddha. Those espousing the perverse
beliefs in these texts have serious moral and psychologi-
cal deficiencies, since they lack any faith in the eternal
afterlife. It is quite natural that Buddhists have these
spiritual problems because they believe that they may
reincarnate as a mouse, monkey, cow or some other
animal.

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