[Buddha-l] Subject: the poignancy of Donald Lopez

[Curt Steinmetz]

I am still unsure about just what sort of missionary zeal lies behind 
Jerryson and Juergensmeyer efforts. They are certainly doing their best 
to lend credence to the age-old Christian argument that "everyone else 
does it".

Clearly what we are seeing here is an example of the modern phenomenon 
of soft-core Christian apologetics, but this is is just as often engaged 
in by Buddhists, UU's and even Pagans as it is by nice liberal 
Protestants like Karen Armstrong. The rallying cry of these folks is 
that it is unfair to single out Christians and Muslims for what they 
have done, despite the fact that no one else has ever done anything 
remotely similar.

Curt

Richard Hayes wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Curt Steinmetz wrote:
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>> Such statements combined with the ludicrous nature of Jerryson's 
>> accusations directed at the Dalai Lama, etc al, would seem to indicate a 
>> missionary zeal of some sort at work here.
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> Good to see that you are meeting an imagined Christian missionary zeal with your own anti-Christian missionary zeal. Doesn't it say somewhere in the Dhammapada that the best way to meet imagined missionary zeal is with real missionary zeal?
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