In a message dated 4/7/2006 12:06:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think that
Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are against violence _in practice_
(and it's practice that matters in the end, not theory).
Comment:I was referring to "practice" by the common people not the state
rulers. Again because of the strong emphasis of Oriental religions on
non-violence and the practice of self-reflection and meditational
techniques,even t
oday, the rates of crime and violence in China and japan are way below the
rates
in the USA and most of Europe. And even by state standards nothing is
comparable to the Anglo-Saxon and Spanish global vandalism and pillage through
out
world history.
Christianity has never made anti-violence its main target, not even theory,
the cheek quote not withstanding.
Cristobal Senior De Ruiz
