XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:24:17 +0200, Steve Hayes    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Yes, that's fair. :-)   
      
   How about dropping these idealized, purified 'mere' stand-alones, and the   
   word 'practise' --  and talking about how Japan might have behaved with the   
   same sort of Christianity that Europe actually had? And vice versa.   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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