I’m Buddhist, and it’s always struck me as odd that so many religious people require their text to be literally true.

If it were to be definitively proven that the person called Jesus Christ never existed as a historical person on earth, the various Christian churches and organizations would stop at nothing to attempt to discredit this. They would be furious.

On the other hand, if it were definitively proven that Siddartha Gautama, the person who will be called the Buddha, never existed as a historical person on earth, most Buddhists would find it interesting, probably even humorous, and would go on happily practicing Buddhism.

Good God, tune the self-righteousness down a notch… I can barely see the screen through the smog of smug oozing from your post.

Good God Buddha

You may be bathing in it to the point you don’t notice it anymore.