@igm,
...flawless logic in this one just read...
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Yes, i expect it will be. The most likely response is the one i've most commonly seen, a straw man argument to the effect that Buddhism is not worse than other religions. I'm not saying it's worse, i'm just pointing out that it is no better. In the final analysis, if you wish to exculpate Buddhism from crimes committed by its adherents based on the excellence of it's dogma, justice requires one to exculpate all religions on exactly the same basis.
What is there to be exculpated in the first place ???
Exculpating Buddhism from the crimes of some of its adherents ???
... maybe he meant some Buddhists instead of Buddhism after all, but it certainly does n´t read that way...
...and from there he went on :
Quote:Eggs-actly. Buddhists like to portray themselves as different, but i'm personally not buying that. Buddhists murder, rape, make war and to me, worst of all, reek of hypocrisy.
And among the worst hypocrisies is Buddhists blithely surveying the misery around them--the povery, the malnutrition or even stavation, the disease--and prating about the wheel of life, about the transitory nature of life, while they grow fat and happy off the gifts of the peasants.
To me, they cut from the same cloth as the smarmiest televangelist.
...clear as water the present intention of
generalization when stating Buddhists murder, rape make war, and so on...
...obviously, from philosophy, to science, or to religion, as any other group anywhere in the world one does not measure its excellency based on the standards of chosen behaviour of
some of its members...that´s why such beliefs report to ideals...
Finally:
...is not the case that I need to make a case for Buddhism superiority as a set of beliefs, just a case for the natural consistency and banality of such belief, as being a subsequent form on shared Identity principles whatever is the group in analysis, thus not being worth any particular criticism...
