• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    The religions where you chill on a stone all your life and meditate are basically the only ok religions.

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      3 days ago

      Nothing wrong with meditating on a stone all your life, but where does a monk’s meal come from? Who grows the food? Who weaves the cloth? If it were all just charity, that would be one thing…

      Before China, Tibet was a feudal society, with the monastery at the top of the hierarchy. They wielded power; religious, political, and physical. The punishment for disobeying a monk was to have your hands cut off. And this wasn’t just some ancient state of affairs, it was happening in the 20th century.

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      3 days ago

      If that was the version of Buddhism he’s advocating for Tibet would still be an autonomous region instead of under direct control.

      They had child sex slaves and a caste system that would make some parts of India blush.

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        3 days ago

        I didn’t realise that human rights violations were justification for invasion and conquest.

        Imperialism is wrong no matter who is doing to conquering or being conquered.