(March 19, 2019 at 3:01 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: If you say so, but it does shed some light on what brian may have been trying to communicate with the notion that religions tend to preach peace when powerless and then ruthlessly expand when in the majority.
What do you think a "good jain" would have been conceptualized as, then? A person who refused to engage in the campaigns? They were executed.
Again, this is the difference between 'a religion of peace' and 'peaceful religionists'. A believer violating the tenets of a religion doesn't change what those tenets are.
Boru
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