Red Persecution of Buddhists
Re: Viet Nam: Buddhist Dissident Leaves for Exile
The so-called Progressives in the West might notice this. When it's a Catholic Bishop or a Christian Montagnard being jailed or expelled, no one seems to care. [Those culturally imperialistic Christians deserve it after all!] Now that it is Buddhism, the religion du jour of Progressives in the West, that is being targeted, someone will surely take a stand, make and sell a t-shirt, and hold a rally.
N.B.: This blogger holds no ill will toward sincere Buddhists, only toward those Westerners who claim to be Buddhists without knowing any of the tenets of the faith. They seem to see Buddhism as a way to have religion without any discipline or value judgments, which is quite far from the truth.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, found this out when his opinions against homosexuality were met with the disgust of Western Buddhists. When his book was to be published in the West, His Holiness went so far as to remove portions that denounced homosexuality.
I'm sure happy the Holy Father in Rome doesn't give a hoot what most American Catholics think when he issues an encyclical. We'd be Unitarians if he did!
Re: Viet Nam: Buddhist Dissident Leaves for Exile
The so-called Progressives in the West might notice this. When it's a Catholic Bishop or a Christian Montagnard being jailed or expelled, no one seems to care. [Those culturally imperialistic Christians deserve it after all!] Now that it is Buddhism, the religion du jour of Progressives in the West, that is being targeted, someone will surely take a stand, make and sell a t-shirt, and hold a rally.
N.B.: This blogger holds no ill will toward sincere Buddhists, only toward those Westerners who claim to be Buddhists without knowing any of the tenets of the faith. They seem to see Buddhism as a way to have religion without any discipline or value judgments, which is quite far from the truth.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, found this out when his opinions against homosexuality were met with the disgust of Western Buddhists. When his book was to be published in the West, His Holiness went so far as to remove portions that denounced homosexuality.
I'm sure happy the Holy Father in Rome doesn't give a hoot what most American Catholics think when he issues an encyclical. We'd be Unitarians if he did!
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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