Damned STUPID Priest yesterday . . .

[Cherub786]

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.

What are you actually defending the Khmer Rouge?
Buddhist monks should be exterminated because they are lazy and beg for food?

That's the problem with authoritarian ideologies, they want to impose what they imagine is for the greater good for society at the expense of religious and individual liberty. No wander such authoritarian tendencies appeal to the non-religious and the atheists. I think it's the same line of reasoning used by Nazis to exterminate disabled and sick people. Burdens on society must be exterminated for the material progress of that society.