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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 5 Oct 2005 07:20:15 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
   Yes.   
      
   >   
   >> 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...   
      
   Well then, perhaps you'd better explain your fictional analogies in a bit more   
   detail, and what you understand by "sincere".   
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
   So what?   
      
      
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