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To: Central Scrutiniser
Nothing sad about being a Buddhist, when is the last time the Buddhists went about proclaiming a holy war and killing everyone to prove that their god is more peaceful?

You'd probably have to go back to feudal Japan, during the life of Miyamoto Musashi, when the purge of Christians took place. But Japan's martial incarnation of Zen was always an odd duck, and served more as a political control tool of the daimyo and the shogun than an actual religion, so I don't know if it really counts. The purge certainly wasn't a "my God is better than your God" thing, though, and in fact the Buddhist warrior monks got much the same treatment from the political establishment.

65 posted on 12/17/2001 5:51:26 PM PST by RogueIsland
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