&gt;All religions are silly ridiculous relics. Let&#x27;s stop talking about them.<p>You can&#x27;t actually reliably say this without first going through every religion and telling us how ridiculous you find it.<p>But I&#x27;m not really bothered about every religion. Out of interest, what&#x27;s ridiculous about Buddhism, and how are you going to quantify the ridiculousness?<p>Your argument doesn&#x27;t work as well with Buddhism. It works to an extent (there are repressive Buddhist monks etc.) If I lived near a Buddhist (or Christian) monastery, chances are that I&#x27;d respect it, and I would wish to preserve it. I&#x27;d even offer up for an alms round. After all, they do no harm to me.<p>Note that I&#x27;m only picking Buddhism because it&#x27;s a religion I&#x27;m relatively familiar with. I don&#x27;t know enough about Christianity (the largest religion in the world, which doesn&#x27;t even advocate circumcision) to argue the point on Christianity.