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Politics : Evolution
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (36626)5/25/2013 7:04:18 PM
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No, that's an observation based on liberal westerners who don't like Christianity and embrace an imaginary Buddhism that isn't much like the real thing.

Buddhism & Buddha are as real as Socrates or Pythagoras are and your point that somehow Christianity is the standard bearing flag for model citizens is as skewed as your Evolution denial is . Already gave you an example of George Washington following the example of the early Roman leader Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus here when it came to the highest form of virtue in leadership, he was not thinking of the Christian saints.
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There is a point of accepting all of human history, not selectively living in one self imposed narrow band of history in denial and respecting all of the past.

Since most all genius leaders of nations and cultures themselves in human history embraced the wisdom & examples that preceded their own. That many of the greatest minds of science & business today were/are drawn to those ideas & meditations of Buddha was a natural thing , since it took in the wide sweep of all living things and describes a universe of inexorable change as it really is . And for the most part most scientist are already passionate, fiercely dedicated to their fields & given naturally to that form of asceticism in years of lab & field study.

That you don't like it means it most certainly has to be a supreme goodness, or as they say down in Texas, tuff shit.

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