Why karma is bullshit (1)

In every religion, there's that thing that keeps people from doing bad things and encourages them to do good ones - there's heaven, hell and ten commandments in Christianity, 72 virgins in Islam, and Hinduism (and also other derivatives, such as certain variations of Buddhism, Jainism, etc.), we have karma - sometimes spelled Karma. So, to start off, here's a quick overview of how these mechanisms of control work.

Christianity
Elements: Heaven, Hell, Ten Commandments, Seven Main Sins
Description: If you do good things and generally things accordingly to the commandments, you go to heaven, with free harp lessons and cloud beds and angels as your minions. If you, however, do bad things, or any of the Seven Main Sins, you go to hell, a place of fire and where devils live, and you'll be tortured and boiled in lava for eternity.
Notes: Christianity kinda ripped off Jews on this one.

Islam
Elements: Heaven with 72 virgins, Ten Commandments (Islamic knock-off)
Description: Pretty much the same as Christianity, with their set of commandments. Additionally, if you kill infidels, you will get to special level of heaven and receive your own personal 72 virgins.

Hinduism (as I'll focus mainly on Hinduistic approach to karma)
Elements: Karma, Reincarnation.
Description: Here, things get Jar Jar Binks shit complicated. To simplify it all, let's just say karma is the scoreboard of one's life, and it's a key factor during reincarnation. For example, if you've broken someone's arm, you'll have an arm broken in your next life, if you killed someone in your previous life, you will suffer its consequences in this life.
Also:

Upper half: cycle of life and death. Lower half: ranking of incarnations (left:worst, right:best)

Fuck! This is just fucking weird!
In part 2: Consequences of practising karma beliefs

God Dies Here

Thursday 3 June 2010