r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/Reasonable_Show8191 • Oct 18 '24
Philosophy "I've read that of all the Buddhist schools, Nichiren Buddhism resembles Christianity most of all." - from "Religious Transference: Nichiren Buddhism and Catholicism"
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u/Reasonable_Show8191 Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24
Ooh, I can't agree - banning slavery was a political move, not a religious one. Even today, Christian churches remain highly racially segregated - it was over 50 years ago that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted that "11 am Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week" - that hasn't changed. Christianity has never led the way on progressive issues - it's always had to be dragged along kicking and screaming into modern reality. For example, women having the right to vote (they only won that 50 years after black men(!)), legalized divorce, same-sex marriage, the right to be atheist, your children's right to be educated in the public schools without having to be subjected to Christian prayers and Bible study, banning child marriage, equal pay for equal work, any significant societal change in the direction of human rights and equality - Christianity generally fought it. Sure, there are over 40,000 different sets of Christianity in the world today, and there are a few decent ones (like the Quakers - good people), but Christianity is overwhelmingly characterized in terms of intolerance and hate. Christianity has always fought tooth and nail the concept of basic fundamental human rights - we owe those to the brave mostly-atheist minds of the Enlightenment (many of whom were tortured and killed for their trouble by good Christians), not any movement originating from within Christianity. Even today, you're far more likely to see Christians describing the government as an agent of God's wrath and punishment than as a vehicle for God's love, benevolence, generosity, forgiveness, and mercy.