RE: There are no "Religions of peace".....
March 22, 2019 at 4:45 am
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2019 at 4:47 am by bennyboy.)
(March 17, 2019 at 9:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(March 17, 2019 at 9:06 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Not all Buddhists are peaceful, but I would say that it's a particularly peaceful religion.
Seems that far to many are not getting it.
There is a HUGE difference between "seemingly peaceful" now, and peaceful in the past and peaceful forever. There is also geography and majority vs minority going on in human history, and since nothing ever stays the same, my point is it still amounts to human behavior not labels.
There is no corner of the globe that has been violence free, ever. Study enough of human history, and that becomes obvious. I cant say this enough, there is not one nation that does not have hospitals and prisons.
Give any sect of any population enough power, they still have the potential to become what they claim to have fought to defeat.
That's intrinsic to bald apes, in particular male ones. Violence can be found in secular or formally atheist societies, as well-- bald apes are perfectly happy to leverage whatever memes are in the spotlight to turn each other to fight, in order to gain personal advantage or to vent feelings of offense. Somewhere, the following words have certainly been uttered just before a mortal beating: "What the fuck did you just say about GHANDI?!?!?!" "What the fuck did you just say about PUPPIES!?!?!?" "What the fuck did you just say about my COOKING!?!?!?!"
