Any historian knows there would be no Buddhists at all if there were no "judgemental" Christians who died so you could believe whatever nonsense you like.
It's sort of like saying a hippie is nicer to people than his father, a WW II soldier was. The hippie would be saluting der Furher and violently reeducating Buddhists but for his father's sacrifices.
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Define 'historian.'
<<"Any historian knows there would be no Buddhists at all if there were no "judgemental" Christians who died so you could believe whatever nonsense you like.>>
This is one of the more bizarre posts I've read here in days (and that's saying a lot!). It's just so incredibly free of sense, logic, or reality, like a surrealist haiku.
What is this history of "Christians who died so you could believe whatever nonsense you like?"
Does radorth still post on the Internet Infidels board, or was he finally chased off.
You know, I always find history revisionists to be amusing. This guy obviously feels that Americans were the heroes of WW2. The U.S. was weapons dealers, if I recall, for BOTH sides, and failing that I'm incorrect on that front, maintained neutrality. The only reason they stepped in was because Pearl Harbor got bombed.
No, I think what he's saying is an extension of the "Love your freedom, thank a vet" mentality. He's saying (I think) that if Christians hadn't died in wars to safeguard freedom, Buddhists wouldn't be allowed to practice their religion.
His opinion ignores an awful lot about history, "Christian" safeguards of freedom, and the fact that most Buddhists live outside the protection of the USA (and in fact live in pretty repressive places by Western standards-- i.e., they don't owe their religious practice to any freedoms they've been granted by the USA), but I think that's what he's getting at.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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