"I think Buddhism should be an essential study for any Christian to try to break the crippling hold over them and damage done by Western fundamental beliefs."
It might be good for anyone who is caught up in a dogmatic belief system, athesistic, religious or political.
No reason to single out religious Christians. For the most part, I don't think their beliefs are much of a problem today.
I do not see Christian religious zealots murdering large numbers of innocent people.
Granted, there plenty of amoral materialists with with vaguely Christian backgrounds and upbringing who are in positions of power, and abusing it. Look at the major party leadership in the United States, since Kennedy.
The problem is not in religious beliefs, it is in their lack of them. No civilized people believe execution is a proper response to differences in religious faith anymore, except for a few fringe groups.
There is more danger from the existential pragmatists, who will do anything to further progress towards political ends.
People are imperfect. All make mistakes. Some of them do evil by intention.
I am not of the opinion that "Western fundamental beliefs" have done a lot of damage lately.
It is mostly people and their actions based on wrong ideas.
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