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Buddhism: the untold story

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  • 03-09-2012 9:41am
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    Banbh
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    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/09/201292175339684455.html

    Buddhism is sometimes regarded, in Europe anyway, as a more tolerant religion, a religion of peaceful meditation and begging baldy monks.
    But like all organisations seeking control of society it has its darker side. The above link is to the recent ethnic-cleansing movement in Burma, orchestrated by the Buddhist church.
    Buddhism can also take credit for the attempted extermination of the Tamils of Sri Lanka and, let us not forget, the first suicide bombers of modern warfare, the kamikazi pilots, many of whom went to their deaths with the blessing of Buddha.


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    Tabnabs
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    What a shame you don't have the integrity to post this in the Buddhism forum and discuss it with the good people there. Of course, maybe they'd try to kamikazi, suicide bomb or beg you over to their darker side...


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    Banbh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭Banbh


    I will happily post it there. My experience with the other religious forums is that they do not welcome criticism. We shall see.

    And as regards my integrity, it is at least on a par with the racist monks of Burma and Sri Lanka.


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    Sappa
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    What an ignorant generalisation viewpoint you have.


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    fitz0
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    Sappa wrote: »
    What an ignorant generalisation viewpoint you have.
    ?

    I'm not seeing the ignorant generalisation. Could you explain?


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    joseph brand
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    Tabnabs wrote: »
    What a shame you don't have the integrity to post this in the Buddhism forum and discuss it with the good people there. Of course, maybe they'd try to kamikazi, suicide bomb or beg you over to their darker side...

    You sayin' we can't discuss buddyism in this forum? Even though there's plenty on christianity and islam. :confused:

    Chill man. Harness the Chi.


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    Dades
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    This could be a candidate for either the Buddhism forum, or the Hazards of Belief thread here.

    EDIT: I see it's now posted in the Buddhism Forum, too, so let's close this one and anyone who wants to can head over there.


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