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   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >>>>"Convert or it's your head in a basket"-type persecution?   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes.   
   >>   
   >>Could you say more? I can find examples on the net of Buddhists   
   >>misbehaving, but nothing as drastic as that.   
   >   
   > Well this would be getting pretty far away from your imaginary world...   
      
   I don't understand why a Lewis fan dislikes an imaginary world so much.   
      
   > through the wardrobe, by 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.   
      
   I'd like to sometime, but others might not and a reference on the net to   
   "Convert or it's your head in a basket"-type persecution by Japanese   
   Buddhists is easier for someone knowledgeable about Japanese Buddhism to   
   find. Do you think an "imaginary" (sorry) contemporaneous Japanese   
   Christianity would have behaved better or worse with the same power?   
      
   >>>>> 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?   
   >>   
   >>So monotheism seems to be more aggressive. There's trouble in Thailand   
   >>too, but it's being caused by Muslims, not Buddhists.   
   >   
   > Maybe you should try a Goodle search on Hintdutva or Sangh Parivar   
   > some time. Not to mention Tamil Tigers.   
      
   I won't ask whether you sincerely believe that a response like that is   
   Christian in its spirit, but you can say if you like. I didn't say   
   polytheism can never be aggressive, I said monotheism seems to be more   
   aggressive. That may be part of why Hinduism is so strongly concentrated   
   in one place and monotheism isn't.   
      
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