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I've found nothing particularly obnoxious about Buddhism as it's often practiced in the West, particularly Zen buddhism.

However there are some things to watch out for,
- there are supernatural elements to Buddhism such as many of the stories of Buddha (the original, as it were, born of a virgin). Many buddhists take these stories as illustrative/allegorical to a particular buddhist concept as opposed to literal stories (that sounds familiar)
- some of the stories of what *can* be done with meditation almost certainly go beyond the possible (such as, levitation, self-healing, etc.) . This isn't unique to Buddhism per se and a lot of it is just Transcendental Meditation (TM)

- also, many adherents point out that in order to achieve Nirvana it requires you to remove yourself from regular life and that you must follow the monastic life of an aesthetic. That might be your thing but I feel that for a worldview to be "valid" it mustn't be nearly as self-centered as the higher/advanced levels of Buddhism require. The above items are more fact-based, as it were, but this statement is more my personal thought.