XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 9 Oct 2005 09:18:53 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >> Many people speak as though witchhunting was   
   >> "medieval". It wasn't (and isn't). It was, and is, modern.   
   >   
   >Does that excuse it or absolve medieval Christians of their forms of   
   >persecution? The Witchhunt shows that Christianity can, in the right   
   >circumstances, become very aberrant. I don't know that Buddhism has ever   
   >become so aberrant: you've still not told me whether you think a Japanese   
   >Christianity with the same power as Japanese Buddhism would have behaved   
   >better or worse.   
      
   I've changed the subject line, since seem to have dropped your imaginary   
   coutnries completely.   
      
   I'm in no position to involve "mediaval Christians" (which ones?) of their   
   (unspecified) forms of persecution.   
      
   In an imaginary Japan in which people practised mere Christianity, people   
   would behave a lot better than historical Buddhists in historical Japan. But   
   in an imaginary medival Europe in which people practised mere Buddhis, they   
   woould also behave a lot better than historical Christians in historical   
   medieval Europe.   
      
      
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