RE: Another reason Buddhism doesn't get a pass.
May 17, 2016 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 1:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's not what dogma means.....lol.
On that note, though, buddhists never were much for eternal damnation or accusations of heresy...they seem to have preferred more worldly threats and violence - and even simple economic extortion. China put an end to one of the more recent examples when they annexed the then theocratic Tibet. I could rattle off a few dozen other examples of buddhisms bloody history, but they're unremarkable in that they're no different than the example of tibet, or the examples of any other social order marginalizing and oppressing an out-group...even when the out-group was, itself, another buddhist sect.
On that note, though, buddhists never were much for eternal damnation or accusations of heresy...they seem to have preferred more worldly threats and violence - and even simple economic extortion. China put an end to one of the more recent examples when they annexed the then theocratic Tibet. I could rattle off a few dozen other examples of buddhisms bloody history, but they're unremarkable in that they're no different than the example of tibet, or the examples of any other social order marginalizing and oppressing an out-group...even when the out-group was, itself, another buddhist sect.
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