General Discussion

Sokushinbutsu being one of them. It is where Buddhist monks observe asceticism to the point of death and enter mummification while still alive. They encourage suicide in a most awful and complicit manner.

There are some really creepy stuff in a lot of those reincarnation religions.

There are a ton of stories about people dying and going to heaven in near death experiences. There are a ton of stories about children coming back as reincarnated souls. Both can Not be correct, but they can both be incorrect. Both have no verifiable evidence to support any of their claims about life after death.

People are still as gullible as they were back in 1765 when Voltaire wrote this:

"Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is injust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. If the God-given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world"