(December 21, 2018 at 2:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Buddhism doesn't get a pass from me either.
"Getting closer to that standard"
Unfortunately that striving for a "higher standard" is the very thing that causes division in our species when it comes to religion.
If one can accept there are good people in every religion, that says to me that the "standard" isn't in a label, not even in Buddhism. Asia's entire history all the way back to antiquity has also never been 100% violence free.
Humans are doing it, both good and bad, labels have no magic powers. Asia also has prisons too.
Yes indeed. Those hoards of warrior Buddhist monks .. they were so fierce.
How much division in our species has been caused by people with a bug up their ass, demanding their definition is the right one ?. That religion.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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