The embarrassment that is buddhism finds its highest virtue in apathy. "Giving up, the religion." No pursuit of higher ideals, no passion for the well-being of others, just an earnest seeking after a coma-like blankness. The lamewad religion that is buddhism doesn't want you to actually live the life you were given.
Unfortunately, vast swaths of the Church concur with this, and it has made many a church become characterized by this same loser-attitude dynamic. "Don't desire political victory, that's idolatry. Don't seek sexual fulfillment with your wife, that's lust. Don't fight, don't have ambition, don't do anything but pray and take the Sacrament."
The truth is, God has never intended for you to abolish yourself. Scripture retains rules for marriage and parenting and business precisely because God wants Christians to seek after these things, offering a perfected version of what mankind seeks anyway.
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