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One acts like a 'Know it all' and the other 'wants to learn it all' (lemmy.world)

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[+] [email protected] -11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Way to project. Find me articles on Buddhists harming people because they think they can fly. While I’m waiting, would you like me to provide scientific research that resulted in harm?

You can’t have it both ways. If you want boundaries that protect you from the religious, then you yourself must respect the same boundary.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://allthatsinteresting.com/sokushinbutsu

This is absolutely self harm that is caused by a mentally disturbed individual that is trying to achieve the nonexistent.

That kind of mental instability can lead to any number of self harm or escalation of hurting others in the name of any god or religion.

Religion needs to be wiped out through education, mental health services and ultimately taxation and banning from all political systems.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I didn’t ask about self harm. I asked about others. Are you afraid you’re going to harm yourself, or that a religious person could harm you? How is an individual’s beliefs your business if they don’t impact you? You sincerely believe that the way to solve religious persecution by some is to persecute all of the religious?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your goal post just moved. Need some help keeping it in place?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Like every large religion, a significant portion of the followers will ignore any teaching in the right contexts. Christians are about turning the other cheek and loving thy neighbor except for the crusades and witch trials, Islam is the religion of peace except for when it isn't, and Buddhism has its own exceptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence

As found in other religious traditions, Buddhism has an extensive history of violence dating back to its inception.

These remarks followed the 1973 student-led uprising, as well as the creation of a Thai parliament and the spread of communism in neighboring East Asian countries. The fear of communism shaking the social forms of Thailand felt a very real threat to Kittivuddho, who expressed his nationalist tendencies in his defense of militant actions. He justified his argument by dehumanizing the Communists and leftists that he opposed. In the interview with Caturat he affirmed that this would not be the killing of people, but rather the killing of monsters/devils. He similarly asserted that while killing of people is prohibited and thus de-meritorious in Buddhist teachings, doing so for the "greater good" will garner greater merit than the act of killing will cost.