Buddhist instigated violence in Myanmar

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Those buddhists aren't following the Buddha, and those monks are being complete hypocrits. The whole point of Buddhism is peace, and theyre being a horrific dissapointment. I'ts not the philosophy that compels them to do this, but the fact that humans fight when they don't agree. This has happens in about every theme of thought that has arisen in human history, blame it on the hypocrit not the philosophy.

I've long believed that the philosophy doesn't really matter, the religion does. To me this excuse is the same as when Muslim apologists continually whine that extremists aren't really following the Qu'ran. I'm more concerned with reality than philosophy. The New Testament is pretty much a document that advocates peace and look what has come of it. Buddhism has long suffered from the same thing. It's been used to repress and divide people throughout it's history.

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I agree. At least from my understanding, the tenets of Buddhism are pretty clear-cut and non-contradictory compared to the cluster-fuck contradictions contained in the abrahamic religions. The execution of it is what seems to be flawed. Then again, I haven't really bothered to study actual Buddhist writings, so I could be wrong.

I would say it's much less clear cut. Look at the Daila Lama's first statements on homosexuality when he came to the west and how he had to backtrack when he realized that western Buddhists largely held a different view than his own. The 10 Buddhist precepts are, if anything, more vague and require more explanation than the 10 commandments or other Christian teachings.