Posted on 07/09/2019 4:03:04 AM PDT by C19fan
The Buddhist abbot was sitting cross-legged in his monastery, fulminating against the evils of Islam, when the petrol bomb exploded within earshot.
But the abbot, the Venerable Ambalangoda Sumedhananda Thero, barely registered the blast. Waving away the mosquitoes swarming the night air in the southern Sri Lankan town of Gintota, he continued his tirade: Muslims were violent, he said, Muslims were rapacious. “The aim of Muslims is to take over all our land and everything we value,” he said. “Think of what used to be Buddhist lands: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Indonesia. They have all been destroyed by Islam.”
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Wasn’t all that long ago when the most violent form of Buddhist protest was self-immolation
“Well, that’s not very Zen of them. “. -any American talking head
Why cant Christians understand this. Im with the Buddhists.exterminate thoses vermin!!
Hmmmm. I have always thought of Buddhism as an irrelevant, ancient religion. May need to reconsider.
I mean, we have a Pope who wants to appease Islam and the “peaceful” Buddhists are fighting to survive. Interesting times.
Exactly what I thought.
New Buddhist mantra: Ohmmm Manne Padre Boom
Pacifism, poverty, and harmony.
Not concepts to lend well to aggressive and willful threats to your existence. It’s one thing to accept the results of an act of god or nature, but another to stand by and watch systematic loss and suffering
“Hmmmm. I have always thought of Buddhism as an irrelevant, ancient religion. May need to reconsider.”
I was raised as a Presbyterian.
I’ve been Buddhist for the last 30 years. Not a lot of difference. I never went to church that often and now I only go to the temple occasionally.
I have been a Christian by choice since Baptized 20 years ago but if “Christians” don’t understand the need to protect your country and community from invaders that do not share our society and culture and the Buddhists DO I may become like “Life of Pi” and become a mixture. Who knows? Maybe the Buddhists we see some value in inviting Christians from America to enjoy their Second Amendment Rights in their countries.
...Buddhist lands
Very odd concept for a Buddhist
Seems antithetical to the 3rd Nobel Truth
https://www.buddhanet.net/4noble16.htm
Exactly.
It should be “The Return of Militant Buddhism.”
And someone should teach them about Yamabushi!
...Not a lot of difference
Minus the Father/Son/Holy Ghost, i guess
Also that TULIP thingy
But the Eight Fold Path would fit right in
Ok, somewhere in the universe, a butterfly giggled.
About 25 years ago, a local RC Catholic Church (Church of Saint Thomas) burned down. The priest made the rounds of all the other Catholic churches in the area begging for a time slot for his congregation. He was refused by all. He even tried the Baptist, Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches. No luck. The Buddhists at the temple my wife goes to heard of their plight and without being asked, offered to host their services on Sunday mornings. Christians in the morning and Buddhists in the afternoon. They did this for a year and a half while the church was restored.
That was the event that made me give up on Christian churches. Too much attention to money and not enough to religion.
Islam only understands force. Christians and Hindus have known this for a long time. Buddhists are starting to get it.
Me, too. Except 45 years practicing Buddhism. I am encouraged that Buddhists in places with encroaching islam recognize the existential threat islam poses and are willing to defend their faith and culture.
IMHO, welfare is the church’s FIRST priority but turning that over to the gummint meant bigger and nicer churches which is a small part of our many problems.
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