Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
This guy sounds like he means well.
In much the same sense that every fundamentalist, from Jimmy Swaggart to Mullah Omar means well. I'm sure it a Muslim explained to you how your faith is false, and you need to convert to Islam to avoid hell, you'd take it with equanimity and cheerful ecumenicalism.
Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
He doesn't demand the tiger converts, he just says that christianity is bigger on forgiveness than buddhism (which is true) and that he could find comfort in that.
Buddhism has a different take on forgiveness, sure, but it's straight-up ignorant to declare that it's "bigger" in some quantifiable sense. The fact that you would make such a bald, uninformed declaration without even attempting to back it up is surprising.

What's astonishing to me is how fundie Christians, who are forever playing the victim card about how their faith is persecuted (c.f. "War on Christmas," etc.), will cheerfully engage in exactly the practices they rail against.

And you completely fail to address the appropriateness of a news organization telling a public figure to change his religion. The weirdness and wrongness seems to have whooshed right over your head.