Folks who meaning to be God are overall dismissed as nuts. Folks who meaning to last articulated to God or last gotten a message from God (Abraham, Saint Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, etc.) or meaning they are relevant to God are probably either psychotic, delusional or con men. A haste example of a huckster is Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, the guy in Comport yourself Maher's movie Religulous who says he's Jesus reincarnated. He's openly a con man.
Buddha, on the other hand:
* never claimed to be God
* never claimed to be a relative of God
* never claimed to last articulated to God or acknowledged a message from God
In fact, he never even mentioned God in his wisdom. (His wisdom are typically about how to believe your way to better mental health. So, I mediate you may perhaps say that Buddha was the basic therapist.)
The proof Buddhism is even riddle as a religion is strain grow to deify him. But he never claimed to be arrogant than an expected man. He never claimed to last magic powers. (See Stephen Batchelor, a earlier period preacher and the playwright of Buddhism Not good enough Principles.)
So, was Buddha the song founder of a secret religion who wasn't psychotic, delusional or a con man?
