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bmh100 | 4 years ago

No one owns any religion, not even the Pope or the Dalai Lama. There is no "territory" to "colonize", and I haven't seen any evidence of racial superiority being a motivation. People develop their own belief systems over time. Did Gautama Buddha erase traditional Hindu voices when he spread his new religion in India? Was Gautama Buddha motivated by a feeling that his Nepal race was superior to the Hindu Indo-Aryans? Did Gautama Buddha seek to "colonize" the Indian subcontinent somehow?

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joeberon|4 years ago

We have lots of resources over at /r/GoldenSwastika

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenSwastika/wiki/misconceptions

I will not stop until we've erased secular voices from Buddhist spaces

JasonFruit|4 years ago

It sounds like you've defined "Buddhist spaces" in a way that's excluded secular voices pretty effectively. Why is it necessary to exclude secular voices from all "Buddhist" spaces, instead of just your Buddhist spaces?