Call Me Buddhist, But I Thought Christmas WAS About Peace on Earth!

Guess I was wrong about that.

Here's a story of a person being fined by her homeowners association for putting up a Christmas wreath with a peace symbol.

Other neighbors, you see, are complaining.

Some are saying that peace is Satanic.

Well, well, well.

Some crappy-Christians, as we have documented earlier, opine that sand mandalas and the scarey Dalai Lama are Satanic, too.

As is Buddhism in its entirety.

Ah me.  So much time to freak out about Satanic-ness, so little time to practice the Beatitudes.

Comments

[HonestObserver]

Have you ever read Zen at War by Brian Daizen Victoria?

Just curious.

[No Blood for Hubris]

Not yet, but I'll give it a look.

[Buddhist Jihad]

I'm guessing that you mention this book in an attempt to create a new category, that of "Crappy-Buddhists". That works for me. A Buddhist who tortures, for example, might count as a "crappy-Buddhist." Although, to me, such a person would not really count as a Buddhist at all. In the same way that Crappy-Christians don't really count as Christians.