"Beat The Buddha"
HAH!
(Amateurs!)
Very common superstition. In Europe they would drown the patron saint’s statue until he granted their wish for relief from a drought.
"Beat The Buddha"
HAH!
(Amateurs!)
HABAKKUK 2:18-20
18“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
19“Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
And there is no breath at all inside it.
20“But the LORD is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth be silent before Him.”
One could say that the Buddha statue was being Gautraumatized.
“Beat The Buddha”
That’s a new one. George Carlin missed that one!
So that’s what the young people are calling it these days?
Fifty years ago, here were little statues of the fat man on Okinawa in which you could rub his tummy for good luck.