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Damocles

Damocles

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Apparently, now that Christmas has been successfully preserved for one more year, the Christians have taken Buddha to task...

http://stateoftheline.wordpress.com...ns-continued-dominance-of-american-zoo-decor/

Geez, will Christians ever catch a break? Isn’t it bad enough that their faith is totally ignored by mainstream American society? Or that their holidays are never cause for celebration in this country? Ridiculous. Well, score another point for religions that aren’t based on talking snakes or underperforming carpenters: the Kansas City Zoo has found itself smack in the middle of a good ol’ fashioned interfaith donnybrook. It seems that the Zoo, in selecting the accoutrements for its Asian-themed “Tiger Trail,” made the incendiary choice of selecting two Buddha figures to grace the entrance. And my oh my, has this ever angered Overland Park resident and Mouthpiece Of The Lord David Engle.

Mr. Engle was visiting the Zoo with his family recently when, to his horror, he gazed upon heathen zoo visitors daring to rub the belly of an Eastern idol. And then Jesus wept, and Mr. Engle somehow knew all about it.

David Engle said he felt a chill down his spine Sunday on a visit with his family to the Kansas City Zoo.

He could hardly believe it when he saw zoo visitors rubbing the heads and bellies of two large, smiling statues of Buddha at the entrance to the Tiger Trail area.

“We can’t have a cross or a nativity scene on public property,” said Engle of Overland Park, who complained to a zoo employee. “It is phenomenal to me that the zoo would put up Buddha statues.”

(Hey genius, the zoo is not government property, so you have no right to complain)

Engle, who said he and his family are Christians, said it was idolatry and “infuriating to God.”
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Well, dang! I'm glad he's there to tell me how infuriating it is to God....

There are several things I'd like to tell this man. Number one being, Buddha isn't a god, it isn't an idol, and rubbing Buddha's belly isn't something that a Buddhist would really do. The chubby fat Buddha that most people think of "rubbing" is of an entirely different person than Siddharta.... Ahh forget it, trying to explain Eastern beliefs to an idiot like this is a waste of time!
 
Sure, throw up a cross and everybody and their brother'll be out there with placards to denounce the indoctrination, but slap those two statues down, and those same people don't say Buddha it!

I'm here all week. I'm told the veal is delicious.
 
Damocles said:
Apparently, now that Christmas has been successfully preserved for one more year, the Christians have taken Buddha to task...

http://stateoftheline.wordpress.com...ns-continued-dominance-of-american-zoo-decor/



Well, dang! I'm glad he's there to tell me how infuriating it is to God....

There are several things I'd like to tell this man. Number one being, Buddha isn't a god, it isn't an idol, and rubbing Buddha's belly isn't something that a Buddhist would really do. The chubby fat Buddha that most people think of "rubbing" is of an entirely different person than Siddharta.... Ahh forget it, trying to explain Eastern beliefs to an idiot like this is a waste of time!
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Is there some orthodox Christian religion that is with the Taliban with 'idoltry'? Will they blow them up?

It was this destruction that got my 7th grade class that year to write a letter to Colin Powell. For some reason, they knew the name "Osama bin Laden" in September...
 
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Damocles said:
Apparently, now that Christmas has been successfully preserved for one more year, the Christians have taken Buddha to task...

http://stateoftheline.wordpress.com...ns-continued-dominance-of-american-zoo-decor/



Well, dang! I'm glad he's there to tell me how infuriating it is to God....

There are several things I'd like to tell this man. Number one being, Buddha isn't a god, it isn't an idol, and rubbing Buddha's belly isn't something that a Buddhist would really do. The chubby fat Buddha that most people think of "rubbing" is of an entirely different person than Siddharta.... Ahh forget it, trying to explain Eastern beliefs to an idiot like this is a waste of time!
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I know what you mean. I tried to explain to a friend of mine that's a Nazarene minister that the concept of Karma is a philosophical and not a religeous concept. He didn't get it.
 
Mottleydude said:
I know what you mean. I tried to explain to a friend of mine that's a Nazarene minister that the concept of Karma is a philosophical and not a religeous concept. He didn't get it.
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It is religious. That doesn;t make it bad or wrong.


And we all know that a cross put up at a zoo would cause a ruckus and there be a lawsuit to have it removed.

Im not even a christian, but I do notice double standards. Inexplicable double standards are a sign of mass psychosis.
 
The way i see it is that some big old Buddha statues may remind, for example, the giant pandas of their far away homes and are, therefore, a good thing.

The erection of some crosses in a zoo based environment would not remind any animals of home and could be seen as a crude attempt to single out and shame the lion community into admitting their alleged crimes against Christians in bygone days. This would be a bad thing as the lions would get depressed and lethargic leading to the closure of the zoo. Therefore it is a bad thing. Fact.
 
AssHatZombie said:
It is religious. That doesn;t make it bad or wrong.


And we all know that a cross put up at a zoo would cause a ruckus and there be a lawsuit to have it removed.

Im not even a christian, but I do notice double standards. Inexplicable double standards are a sign of mass psychosis.
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you mean situation normal - or maybe mass apathy...
 
AssHatZombie said:
It is religious. That doesn;t make it bad or wrong.


And we all know that a cross put up at a zoo would cause a ruckus and there be a lawsuit to have it removed.

Im not even a christian, but I do notice double standards. Inexplicable double standards are a sign of mass psychosis.
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Well, realistically there is little reason to have Buddha at a zoo.

Rubbing fat and happy Buddha's belly? Not religious any more than a fortune cookie.
 
Damocles said:
Well, realistically there is little reason to have Buddha at a zoo.

Rubbing fat and happy Buddha's belly? Not religious any more than a fortune cookie.
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Buddhism is actually a religion with concepts of soul and morally based cosmic machinery of justice, with a hierarchy of animal life, with the joining of the soul with the cosmos as a goal. It's actually insulting to say it isn't, but, whatever, hey, you're Damo.:rolleyes:
 
AssHatZombie said:
Buddhism is actually a religion with concepts of soul and morally based cosmic machinery of justice, with a hierarchy of animal life, with the joining of the soul with the cosmos as a goal. It's actually insulting to say it isn't, but, whatever, hey, you're Damo.:rolleyes:
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For some Buddhists, yes. For others, no.

Learn something. Not all who practice Buddhism even believe in the concept of a Deity at all, let alone souls.

Get "insulted" all you want, but at least try to understand, your concept of what Buddhism is may not in fact relate to reality in any way.
 
Damocles said:
For some Buddhists, yes. For others, no.

Learn something. Not all of Buddhism even believe in the concept of a Deity at all, let alone souls.

Get "insulted" all you want, but at least try to understand, your concept of what Buddhism is may not in fact relate to reality in any way.
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Or it may be. It may just be the case that your definition may not in fact relate to reality in any way. Florid langauge doesn't mean you "win", Potzy.
 
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