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   "Dan Drake" wrote:   
      
   >> try reading the history of Japan before the Meiji era, and   
   >> most notably in the periods of Buddhist dominance, where Japan was   
   >> xenophobic, ethnocentric and religiously intolerant, and intolerant   
   >> of Shinto, Confucianism and Christianity.   
   >   
   > In fact, one could ask the Roman Catholic Church, which has a list as   
   > long as your arm of Christians martyred at the start of the 17th -   
   > 19th century Shogunate.   
      
   I'd be interested to know whether you think the Church would have behaved   
   worse or better had it won the ascendency in Japan its martyrs were   
   seeking.   
      
   > That's a period when Buddhism was strong   
   > enough that immediately upon the Meiji restoration (Thank you, USA --   
   > but actually it was on the whole a good thing for Japan) the Shinto   
   > (not montheists!)   
      
   Which would be worthy of an exclamation mark only if I'd claimed   
   monotheism alone was aggressive. I didn't.   
      
   > started reducing Buddhist power by burning temples   
   > and the like, though I can't give you a body count.   
      
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