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   Steve Hayes 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 you seem to have dropped your   
   > imaginary coutnries completely.   
      
   No, but you have to use how MCs and MBs have behaved in this world to   
   know how they'd behave in an imaginary one.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   This is based on your definition of "mere Christians" as omniscient and   
   infallible. Here's the question again:   
      
   Do you think Japanese Christians would have behaved better than Japanese   
   Buddhists with the same power?   
      
   A couple more questions:   
      
   Do you accept that sincere MCs can mistakenly execute other MCs as   
   witches?   
      
   Do you accept that sincere MCs can torture and execute other MCs as   
   heretics?   
      
   If it's "No" and "No", then where did MC go in those long periods in   
   which the above were taking place?   
      
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