“The Buddhist scriptures only focus on teaching the Buddhist religion.”
What you are calling “Buddhism” is just an umbrella term for many different philosophies and belief systems which come under that category, many of which are absolutely opposite to one another. It is a word which is useful, but more or less meaningless. In “Buddhism”, you will find materialists, idealists, realists, nihilists, and even some streams which come very close to being theistic or pantheistic. There is even one school, the Pure Land Buddhism, which is not all too different than Christianity. They emphasize that the way to liberation is through simply believing with devotion in Amitabha Buddha, one of the Buddhas in paradise who has given a promise that if you believe in him, you will enter into the Pure Land. Hence, the whole Pure Land Buddhism is just having faith in Amitabha Buddha, just as Christians have faith towards Jesus Christ who is their savior. Many other Buddhists will not agree with this approach. In fact, most of what has arisen in Buddhism has nothing at all to do with Gautama Buddha - who was not a Buddhist at all, or belonged to any particular belief system or tradition. He was simply an ordinary man who had come to know himself, through and through.
“Hindu scriptures teach you the sciences. They are more useful to us because they give us scientific knowledge in all fields.”
There are so many things in the Vedas which are entirely unscientific, they were still entangled in this superstitious idea that if you are inflicted with a certain illness, or if you are insane, it is not because of anything scientific, but you are possessed by certain demons and devils which have to be cast out. If you were insane, then you were taken to a Brahmin in a temple who would try to excorcise the demon out of you, and if that did not work, you were beaten. Most of the rituals of Hinduism are filled with this same kind of fanatic dogmatism, that by performing certain rituals in the right way, or by performing animal sacrifices, that somehow you are going to please the deities who will work in your favor. The Vedas itself declares itself to be a revelation from God, which is just a hallucination of their authors. There is no “God” in the sense of a Supreme Being which is created in one’s own image, and like every other religion which has been clinging to the idea of God, one has projected ones own identifications of the mind.
