To: Conservative Canuck
"When was the last time Buddhists went to war?"
Pearl Harbor?
13 posted on
12/09/2004 3:23:00 PM PST by
fishtank
To: fishtank
"When was the last time Buddhists went to war?"Pearl Harbor?
Mmmm...Bushido Buddhists...
17 posted on
12/09/2004 3:25:02 PM PST by
Prime Choice
(I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
To: fishtank
Actually, the Japanese Imperial war effort was based in Shintoism.
But the Japanese did use Buddhism as a war tool for centuries. Every samurai strove for the zen mind of thoughtless skillfulness.
26 posted on
12/09/2004 3:27:34 PM PST by
MWS
To: fishtank
"When was the last time Buddhists went to war?" Pearl Harbor?
Wasn't the Japs religion known as "Shinto?" Is that the same as Buddhist? Any other religion is probably a big improvement over TROP.
To: fishtank
Good one. Except for two things: It was Japanese Imperialism which sent them to war, not their religion (although they relied heavily on it while at war, as anyone does), and,
The Japanese practice a particularly primitive, animist form of Buddhism called Shinto, and is quite different from the many other sects of Buddhism.
47 posted on
12/09/2004 3:44:33 PM PST by
Conservative Canuck
(The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness)
To: fishtank
Most of those wre Shinto.
48 posted on
12/09/2004 3:44:36 PM PST by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
To: fishtank
Pearl Harbor?IIRC Buddhists are in the minority in Japan- the no. 1 religion there is Shintoism (sp?).
To: fishtank
Most Japanese are not Buddhist.
The prevailing religion is "Shinto."
53 posted on
12/09/2004 3:49:24 PM PST by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: fishtank
When was the last time Buddhists went to war?"
Pearl Harbor?
Well at least they were peaceful while heading from the carriers to Pearl over the open blue Pacific.
To: fishtank
"When was the last time Buddhists went to war?"Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese were Shintoists. Buddhists are pacifists (think the Dali Lama). They're constantly getting their collective butts kicked. Like in Tibet.
Mark
114 posted on
12/10/2004 5:52:09 AM PST by
MarkL
(Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too!)
To: fishtank
Japanese nationalists were by and large Shinto, a native religion in Japan and in keeping with their raging xenophobia...
115 posted on
12/10/2004 5:57:00 AM PST by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: fishtank
125 posted on
12/15/2004 11:50:23 PM PST by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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