RE: Damned STUPID Priest yesterday . . .
December 4, 2018 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2018 at 11:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 4, 2018 at 5:33 am)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 3, 2018 at 11:17 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: That still doesn't support your statement that they were motivated by atheism or hatred of religion. I'm an atheist, but when I eat food, I can tell you it isn't motivated by my atheism. Telling us that they were atheists tells us nothing about what their motives were.
They were motivated by the desire to create a religion-less society. That obviously came from their atheism.
They weren't, and it didn't. As has been discussed in thread, the motivation was twofold - and the primary motivations lead to the eventual rationalization that expressed itself in their official stance. First, institutionally, it was the need that seems to be felt by every despotic regime to silence critics. At the popular level, it was motivated by the socio-economic reality of the buddhist temples of the time..which had become a place for unemployed men to laze around while stealing food from the poor under the auspices of piety and with the sanction of the previous regime. These two things combined to form the propagandists reason...that buddhism was a monument to monks who asserted that social inequality was the proper state of affairs, now gimme your food and money. Buddhism was seen as one of the "three mountains" that had to be toppled in order to build a more fair and just society. A collaborater with the colonialist masters..which, in plain point of fact...it was.
Our, you know..hurr dur, atheists did it cuz atheism.
50/50
Nevermind the fact that they, too, were fucking buddhists, who were attacking an institution moreso than the belief system, lol. For more interesting trivia, and again as discussed in thread, it has become exactly what it was then in recent times..leading people to feel the same way about it, despite not being khmer rouge cultists. What we can see in this dynamic, is that the appraisal and general sentiment towards buddhist temples and monks exceeds the boundaries of the regimes ideology - it isn;t produced by that ideology, but more that the khmer rouge took advantage of that then-and-now present state of affairs to achieve it's own end, not the formation of a "godless" state (redundant, all states are godless, there is no god) or the suppression of religion..those were simply the means, but un-contested authority.
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