/lit/ - Literature

After reading the Bhagavad Gita, I am starting to wonder, what exactly did Buddha actually have to come and fix within Hinduism? Why create a totally new religion?
The Gita itself already gives a spiritual formula to the reader to escape the cycle of death and rebirth.

As a westerner unfamiliar with eastern religions, I had always been told that Buddha's great contribution was teaching the path to enlightenment that enables you to escape rebirth.
What exactly was the point of Buddhism when Hinduism already has that?
Unless the Bhagavad Gita actually ripped off Buddha's teaching. Is that what happened?

No disrespect meant to either religion, I don't know shit about what I'm talking about anyway so no offense.

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>Unless the people who love you are vehemently anti-Catholic you will grow closer to the people who love you.
You try spouting "le based rad trad Pius XIII Taylor Marshall" shit at your local Novus Ordo parish and tell me how it goes. Or try telling any living woman about this stuff for that matter. If your parents aren't already religious traditionalists of some flavor your family life will get hard too.

Social connections get very difficult to maintain outside of the tiny online bubble of fellow rad trads and that one based friend you met at a Latin Mass.

It all feels like a noble sacrifice until you eventually hear arguments that make you realize modern Christianity itself (even based and redpilled radtrad-dom) has deep doctrinal errors and theological derivations compared to the beliefs of the Early Church.
Then one morning you wake up and realize you have nothing left...

Many such cases...