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Buddhists can be as violent as members of any other religion, but you cannot possible make the argument that Buddhism supports violence in any way. If you pick
by namlem 10y ago
Buddhists can be as violent as members of any other religion, but you cannot possible make the argument that Buddhism supports violence in any way. If you pick up a holy book from any of the Abrahamic religions, you will find no shortage of calls to violence. The same cannot be said of Buddhist teachings. Attributing this violence to Buddhism rather than to ethnic tensions is misguided.
- thoughtcrimes 10y agoYou shouldn't put Islam and Christianity in the same category. It says nowhere in the Bible to go out and kill in the name of your religion.
- srean 10y agohttps://www.bible.com/bible/1/DEU.13.kjv https://www.bible.com/bible/1/DEU.13.kjv 13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.