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   From: toomuchspam@spammer.org   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >>Japan isn't pure Buddhist, and Sri Lanka, as Bree points out, is like   
   >>Northern Ireland. Only I never heard of Buddhist terrorism or Buddhist   
   >>mass-murderers...   
   >   
   > Of course "pure" Buddhism only exists in your imaginary land beyond   
   > the wardrobe, and can be found neither in Japan nor in Sri Lanka. The   
   > point is that in Japan, when Buddhiasts were in power, they tried to   
   > force Buddhism on the entire population through persecution etc.   
      
   "Convert or it's your head in a basket"-type persecution?   
      
   > Such   
   > behaviour is of course, contrary to the teachings of Buddhism just as   
   > it's contrary to the teachings of Christianity, so you would not find   
   > it in either of the imaginary worlds you poisit, though you do find it   
   > in the real world.   
      
   No, my imaginary worlds contain humans, not angels, and humans have a   
   subconscious which influences their actions more than they often realize.   
   That raises the question of whether it's possible for humans to be   
   sincere about certain things...   
      
   > In fact Samuel Huntington, in his book "The clash of civilizations and   
   > the remaking of the world order" posits that in the post-cold war   
   > world the deivisuions will no longer be between the first and second   
   > worlds, with the third world watching from the sidelines, but between   
   > different civilisations, based on religion. The civilisations are   
   > Western , Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Orthodox, Muslim, Sinic, African   
   > and Latin American.   
   >   
   > There may be something to his thesis, because most of the conflicts in   
   > the world since the end of the Cold War have been where those   
   > civilisations meet -- Israel-Palestine, Bosnia, Chechnya,   
   > India-Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and so on.   
      
   Almost all of those involve the three monotheisms.   
      
   > Of course in your imaginary worlds beyond the wardrobe this would   
   > never happen.   
      
   Nope: they're human worlds, not angelic ones.   
      
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