Talk:Sword Buddhism

This is really gratuisous. Pull a new strand of a major religion, one not connected to the PoD, out of your ass and declare it to have displaced the real strands of that religion. Reminds me of Henri--hmm, that might be the beginnings of IFiMT. Give it an unsubtle name like "Sword Buddha" and bam, you've got a nation of violent fanatics to serve the plot. But those whose violent fanaticism is religiously inspired call themselves purists and insist that it's their opponenents who are the apostates. If some, say, Theravadan wanted Buddhism to be violent he'd insist that the nonviolent Theravadans were corrupting influences and that all good Theravadans needed to follow only him.

But even that's gratuitous. Buddhists are no less capable of being violent people than anyone else, and those who are typically simply reconcile it with whatever school of Buddhism they practice without any demands for reform or purification or schism or what have you. Same as most of the rest of us. Turtle Fan 05:15, April 6, 2010 (UTC)