• Parysian [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah like 99.9% of American"pagans" are just acting out an offensively cobbled together frankenstein of long dead European folk religions, with no actual belief system attached or connection to the tradition.

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          They just like to pretend they have an interesting culture, but don't even know shit about their own history, which could had made them an interesting person to talk to.

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, some of the prime commandments of Christianity are "don't kill anyone", "don't steal" and "love your neighbour as you would yourself".

      It sure hasn't stopped them.

    • Moosegender [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      We know there hasn’t been any Buddhist soldiers. Don’t look at Japanese history.

        • Amorphous [any]
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          4 years ago

          Are buddhists necessarily ascetic? I'm not super familiar with buddhism, but I have read stuff written by buddhists and I'm pretty sure I remember one specifically speaking against the idea of asceticism, framing it as something of a needlessly "extreme" approach.

    • naive [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You should ask the Buddhists in Myanmar.