Why I am not a Buddhist

Today is Vesak Day. It is a nice day to tell all why I am not a Buddhist. Bertrand Russell once wrote a book "Why I Am Not a Christian". It was long and thick and I never read it. I shall keep mine as short as possible.

He who asserts must prove. To be provable, it must be an event that can be objectively processed by our five senses and happened in this dimension of time and space.

Of the three religions that I know, they all have one thing in common. They rest on one important assertion. Take away that assertion, the religion collapse.

Christianity rests on the resurrection of Christ. "And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins ... we are of all men most miserable. (1 Corinthians 15:17-19)"

Islam rest on the fact that Mohammed is a prophet of God, the same God of Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus. If you can prove that Mohammed is not a prophet of God, or his God is not God of Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus, you can dump the Koran in the rubbish bin.

Buddhism rest on reincarnation. If reincarnation is not true, you can throw away Buddhism.

Christianity and Islam rest on provable assertion. The resurrection of Christ can be proven as truth or lie, because it is an event that happen in the past, in this time and space, and can be testified with our five senses objectively. Whether Mohammed is a prophet of God can be proven by comparing what God told Mohammed and compared with what God told Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus.

Reincarnation does not happen in our time and space dimension. We cannot sense it by our five senses. We need extrasensory perception (ESP) to prove it. I can see. If I tell a person blind from birth that the sky is white in colour with black polka dots, there is no way he can prove whether I am right or wrong. Since I cannot sense reincarnation, you can tell me any rubbish about reincarnation, I would not know if you are telling the truth or not.

If the foundation is an unprovable assertion, how can I trust the truths that are derived from it? How can I be a Buddhist, if I cannot trust the Buddhist truth?