Thousands of Floating Lanterns Light Up Thailand’s Evening Sky

Tubular lanterns resembling hot air balloons are lit and released into the sky as an offering to Lord Buddha, the China Post reports.
November 26, 2007 at 8:25 pm - WOAI San Antonio
Dateline: Bangkok, Thailand
Ed   November 27th, 2007 - 3:02 am

Er, Taiwan is not Thailand.

Lanterns lit in reverence of a false buddha god…I’m sure the real God is not amused.

“I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”

Jesus

All religions are not the same, and all roads do not lead to the same god.

Dan the Atheist   November 27th, 2007 - 11:42 am

It appears our friend Ed here is a bastion of Christian tolerance. Newsflash Ed: Most educated people feel that your religion is destructive, hateful, and more than a little silly. Take your cannibalistic little sky-daddy cult and move it into the mountains and away from civilization. At least Buddhists do not push their faith on others, or murder others in the name of their religion. I think the lanterns are lovely.

JJGH   August 13th, 2009 - 3:17 pm

In Japan in the 1500s & 1600s, Buddhist/Shinto believers would get reward money for turning in Christians to the government who would then kill them in a terrible pogrom that lasted decades. In Kyoto, it was easy to figure out a Christian because they didn’t attent the many Shinto/Buddhist shrines with swastikas on them. In one famous case a mother, thecla hashimoto see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24652544@N03/2333260684/, was burned alive with her three young daughters: crime..accepting Christianity. The persecution started in the late 1500s when over a dozen Christians, including two boys, were rounded up, had their ears cut off, were forced to march hundreds of miles in winter, mocked in cities (including Hiroshima) and crucified in Nagasaki (just feet from where the nuke bomb hit in WWII). Christians were also killed by being thrown off of cliffs, starved in caves, made to freeze in ice cold water, etc. A martyrs museum exists today detailing this terrible time in history: See: http://www.answers.com/topic/twenty-six-martyrs-of-japan

Just before WWII started, Japanese rounded up Christian missionaries and put them in prison. In one case, some Japanese gov’t or military leaders visited some of the missionaries and said something like, “in a very short time, you will see that the Shinto/Buddhist religion of Japan is more powerful than the Christian God of America.” Shortly after, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Later in the war, Buddhism influenced the suicidal kamikaze fighters that killed thousands. In the Batan Death March, Buddhist influenced Japanese soldiers would crucify American POWs to mock Christianity. Buddhist influenced Japan’s military has one of the most inhumane records of treating POWs in the history of warfare…perhaps only Islam is worse.

So much for peaceful Buddhism. I totally agree with Ed above. Dan shows hatred for Christianity and says nothing bad about the evils of Buddhism..in fact he says untruths.

Kurt the Christian   August 13th, 2009 - 3:20 pm

Dan,
Most educated people are aware that Buddha himself couldn’t hold a candle to Jesus. In your world I suppose both are just good guys- but only one of them has saved countless lives long after their death. Buddha may have made life in the world more worth living,but that surely was an unintended consequence of his teaching. To present him as a sort of socialist is a serious anachronism.
He never preached against social inequality, only declared its irrelevance to salvation. Christians do both, and he neither tried to abolish the caste system nor to do away with slavery.
In fact the last nation on earth to abolish slavery was Buddhist Bhutan in 1962, although it continued in parts of the Middle East and Africa up to the present day.
We’ll forgive your in tolerance of Ed and your ignorance of history because after all your just another lost atheist…God loves you Dan. You too Ed. Peace

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