Comment on How is woke a religion?

• Nepenthe@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well. "Extremist" and "nationalist" were never words I thought I would see attached to the phrase buddhist monk, but here we are, I fucking guess. That's a thing that I know now.

  I'm about to just eschew anything bipedal at this point. Two legs bad.

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  • markr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And on a related note, zen buddhists have a pretty vile subsect that is entwined with Japanese militarism and has been for centuries. However there are a lot of buddhists who are really good people, and lots of buddhist sects likewise. As with almost all religions, it depends on the particular flavor of ideology they have adopted.

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