New Zealander jailed for posting a picture of a certain religious leader

[Montmorency]

Analogy is not equivalence.

[Kadagar_AV]

Analogy is not equivalence.

Word.

If you put things in perspective, your reasoning here is rather far off Husar.

[Husar]

If you put things in perspective, your reasoning here is rather far off Husar.

Oh come on don't be silly, you can do better than that.

[Fragony]

This has got to be a hoax, otherwise a very wtf. Budha isn't even a religious leader ffs

[Papewaio]

Buddhism is a religion hence Buddha is a religious leader, figure and icon.

[Greyblades]

So, will something come of this? Or will the world once again stand idle in the face of tyranny through the impotence of the weak and the apathy of the strong?

[rory_20_uk]

So, will something come of this? Or will the world once again stand idle in the face of tyranny through the impotence of the weak and the apathy of the strong?

Intervention seems to cost a vast amount of money and lives - and ends up with China trying to hide its glee as they can walk in afterwards (or even during since they don't really care about these human rights things).

Perhaps Splendid Isolation did have benefits.

[Gilrandir]

So, will something come of this? Or will the world once again stand idle in the face of tyranny through the impotence of the weak and the apathy of the strong?

Wrong thread. Check the Ukraine thread.

[Fragony]

Buddhism is a religion hence Buddha is a religious leader, figure and icon.

Technically not a religious leader, Budhism is all about the individual. I hope this goes through the shredder it's rediculous

[Husar]

Technically not a religious leader, Budhism is all about the individual. I hope this goes through the shredder it's rediculous

Maybe for western leftists who like the flowery meditation and yoga stuff but I posted an article a while ago that showed how Buddha said killing non-Buddhists isn't even murder and perfectly fine to prevent other religions from spreading in buddhist lands.

http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/07/war...st-violence-i/

There are in fact three grades of murder, in increasing order of seriousness, but killing infidels is not one of them. The Nirvana Sutra reads:

The Buddha and Bodhisattva see three categories of killing, which are
those of the grades 1) low, 2) medium, and 3) high. Low applies to the class of insects and all kinds of animals…The medium grade of killing concerns killing humans [who have not reached Nirvana]…The highest grade of killing concerns killing one’s father, mother, an arhat, pratyekabudda, or a Bodhisattva [three ranks of Enlightenment]…

A person who kills an icchantika does not suffer from the karmic returns due to the killings of the three kinds above. O good man, all those Brahmins are of the class of the icchantika. Killing them does not cause one to go to hell. [23]

The Buddha says in the Nirvana Sutra that icchantika’s status is lower than that of the ants:

[T]he icchantikas are cut off from the root of good…Because of this, one may well kill an ant and earn sin for doing harm, but there is no sin for killing an icchantika.” [24]

[Papewaio]

Technically not a religious leader, Budhism is all about the individual. I hope this goes through the shredder it's rediculous

As pointed out that is a very western hippy view.

Buddhism is a religion with ceremonies, temples, nuns and monks. It has codes of conduct and religious authorities ie the Dalai Lama.

Speaking of Tibet until communist China took over it was a theocracy which is definitely not a system for the individual either in scale of outlook.