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You see it and judge it by the values of the Church, and Islam, and their dualistic views of the world. But Buddhism is no Asian pendant to these.
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It's rather presumptious of you to determine that I judge things by the values of the Church, or in any other way for that matter. You don't know anything of how I form my judgements on this matter, for if you did, you'd certainly know that the last thing I use as a benchmark was the Church! And don't presume to teach me about religion either, I had the misfortune to be sent to Roman Catholic schools by my parents, and had that nonsense rammed down my throat for years, and that's no different from having communism, Islam or anything else forced on you from an early age. All such doctrines live by fear to a greater or lesser degree 'You'll go to hell' 'You'll get bad karma' etc, etc. Anyone in such a position is going to find it hard to break away from it and form their own opinion, but fortunately for me, I was bright enough to do so, instead of being held from such an intelligent choice by the fear that such doctrines perpetuate themselves with. All organised religions are about controlling people, and in that sense they are no worse than the Chinese also trying to control people, albeit through physical rather than mental threats to ones soul, karma or whatever. They're all threats, however you dress them up; the opium of the people, if you will.
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Why don't you complain that in thr story of the gosples Jesus did not ty tom escape from Getsemane, or did not told his students to resist injustice and opression with violence?
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I don't complain about Jesus or anyone else in this thread, simply because that's not what the thread, nor my response on the thread, was about.
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Violance and peace are exclusive to each other.
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Anyone who thinks that you cannot have peace of mind by acting in a warlike fashion would do well to remind themselves that it would have been kind of hard to sit out of WW2 and know that Jews, Gypsies etc etc were being persecuted and feel good about yourself. In the same way as it's not acceptable to me that someone can perpetuate forcing people to believe some nonsense that is putting them in harm's way while they sit in exile in another country with no threats coming their way.
Chock