RE: Damned STUPID Priest yesterday . . .
December 3, 2018 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2018 at 3:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 3, 2018 at 3:14 pm)Cherub786 Wrote: State atheism is responsible for destruction of religious property. The Khmer Rouge, in the name of atheism, destroyed a third of the country's monasteries, destroyed religious texts, and specifically targeted monks for extermination.Nope, as usual. The relationship between the regime and religious observance in that case was the same as in your other boogeymen. In point of fact their constitution included a right to freedom of religion, and they singled out what they considered "subversive religions" largely by association. It just so happened that the buddhist apparatus was in opposition to the regime, and that got them targeted, though the leity was largely left be (at east on account of religion..that is, lol). Not only this, khmer rouge actually subsumed much of buddhism in their sloganeering just as china and russia privilege and incorporate their own cooperating "native traditions" as they de-legitimize those traditions of others.
Every single time you launch into one of these "in the name of atheism" bits it's just more of the same.
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