RE: Religion is poison, OP ED.
October 28, 2013 at 2:31 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2013 at 2:35 pm by Ryantology.)
(October 28, 2013 at 7:18 am)Brian37 Wrote: Um I disagree. China and Japan hate each other and have had constant battles over history, both are full of Buddhists. The orient is just as sectarian and divided as western monotheism.
Is that a recurrent war between competing sects of Buddhism or between two competing nation-states that happen to be Buddhist? There's a difference.
I'm aware that Buddhism has blood on its hands, but Buddhists certainly never wiped out and enslaved most of the native population of an entire hemisphere, either, and that's just one example. Christianity is based upon a doctrine of violence, and it's therefore no surprise that Christian peoples have been starting wars with and instigating petty violence and discrimination against pretty much everybody, including other Christians, virtually non-stop since it was established as a major religion. All of it, of course, leading up to some asinine final boss battle which is supposed to really make the body count soar.