Buddhist Jihad

Brit Hume Hits the Samsara Trifecta, Demonstrates All Three Poisons: Passion, Agression, & Ignorance

Faux News talking head Brit Hume claims Tiger Woods must convert to Christianity, so he can get "redemption" for his serial adultery sins.  (Worked well for Sanford, Vitter, Giuliani, Gingrich, Rove, et al. )

Notice Hume is interested only in redemption, not mentioning anything about avoiding doing the thing you needed to get redeemed for having done.

It's like green stamps.

Got evil deeds?  Go Christian, and turn 'em in for --

Redemption!

"Doing no evil whatsoever

Practice virtue perfectly.

Tame your mind completely:

This is the teaching of the Buddha."

McCain Rally Preacher Erroneously Calls Buddha a "god," Prays to Christian God to Save God's Rep By Causing McCain Victory

Just another day in samsara as usual, home of passion, aggression and -- ignorance.

How offensive is this guy's total ignorance of Buddhism and his dismissal of all other religions to this card-carrying Buddhist?

 Mm -- very.  But in a dharmic context.

Who does he think he is?

Oh, right. He's just being proud and godly, not repulsive and arrogant. Blessed are the meek, dude.

Another fake Christian in need of remedial Sunday School.

Dharmic context:

13.

Even if someone cuts your head off

For having done nothing wrong,

To take on that person's negativities

Through the power of compassion

Is the practice of a bodhisattva.

Hat-tip to Jesus' General

and to TPM

Cross-posted at No Blood for Hubris.

I'm Not Making This Up

Here's a fellow who believes America would benefit from another terrorist attack.  He thinks it would restore America's "righteous rage."  (As if we don't have enough already).

I'm not making this up.  I don't have to.

Stu Bykofsky isn't kidding, either.  He says we need another attack in order "to save America."  Honestly.

Please read:

Stu Bykofsky | To save America, we need another 9/11

"ONE MONTH from The Anniversary, I'm thinking another 9/11 would help America.

What kind of a sick bastard would write such a thing?

A bastard so sick of how splintered we are politically - thanks mainly to our ineptitude in Iraq - that we have forgotten who the enemy is."

     

Hey, Stu.   Last time I checked, the most recent terrorist attack here killed about 3K innocent people.  The response to it, while failing to bring to justice those persons responsible for that criminal act -- who still walk free on this earth -- killed more than 3K American troops, and killed 600K+ Iraquis.  None of whom was responsible for 9/11.

Afghanistan remains weak and unstable, Pakistan (an actual nuclear power, people) is becoming weaker and less stable, and it is is the new home of the actual criminal mastermind of 9/11 (who?  him? who?) who would like to have his people replace Musharraf's people, which eventually they probably will.

Iraq is a total bloodbath, ready to become another medievalist Islamic republic -- the only question being, will it be a Sunni medievalist Islamic Republic, or a Shi'a medievalist Islamic republic?

Our bizarre, ego-fueled interventions in the Middle East have only helped bring Osama Bin Laden's dreams of establishing a medievalist Islamic caliphate closer to fruition.

And here at home, there are millions of nutcases like this guy who write crackpot columns and believe their crazed content with all of their hearts.

Oy.

Samsara.

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Quick! Send a Buddhist to Pray at Senate Opening so Christians Can Shout Him or Her Down!

Well, that's what happened to the first Hindu praying at the Senate.

Full story here.

Protesters represented "Operation Rescue," a fetus-first Talibangelical terrorist group whose notion of protecting "life" is killing people whose religious beliefs differ from theirs.  Not sure what Hinduism has to do with Talibangelical terrorism, but, who knows?  Something got their dander up.

Dancing on Steve Gilliard's Grave

Sure, this librul blogger's body's hardly in the grave, but that don't mean rightwingers can't dance on it!

We just got diffrunt rulez.

We get to use the public airwaves to promote throwing libruls out of helicopters, but calling black female athletes nappy headed ho's is no biggie.  Likewise, libruls dancing on the grave of Jerry Falwell inherently is quite diffrunt from reichwing dancing on the grave of Steve Gilliard.  See?

DEATH OF A HOUSE NEGRO

Not to convert this place into the Dead Meat Buffet but an enormous amount of meat died this weekend and we’re all the better for it.  It goes without saying that the term “house negro” gets bandied about with great frequency against anyone of seemingly African descent when they are on the Right.  Be you Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Michael Steele, or J.C. Watts, you can expect a Harry Belafonte, a Danny Glover, or yes - even a Steve Gilliard to call you out for being the race traitor that you are.  The sell-out, Oreo cookies who do Whitey’s bidding and put a black face on racist policies that would otherwise be rightly called out for what they are. Uncle Thomas and Aunt Thomasinas alike.

But really, who is doing whose bidding in those situations? Can Howard Dean call Condoleeza his “do right answer mammy who be smart”? Can James Carville call out Clarence for collard greens?

Which brings us to today’s marquee morbidity.   The tragic, untimely death of Donk House Negro and all around bigot Steve Gilliard.  Who knew that boiling bacon grease in a spoon and mainlining it into the neck vein was bad for your health?

Link here.

[But here's something a little lighter.  Did you know that God created kangaroos that used reed rafts to float all the way from Mount Ararat to Australia?  I didn't.  I do now, though.)

A Trip Down Memory Lane -- A Reprise of Our First Post

"Things are not what they seem  -- nor are they otherwise."

 -- Lankavatara Sutra

This blog is the reaction of the reactive mind, but so it goes, does it not?

I said I was Buddhist, I never said I was a good Buddhist (as Gene Ryack, Mel Gibson's character in the great uber-Buddhist film, "Air America," once remarked).

Not to mention fundamentalist Muslims (which I won't mention), I've had right-wing Roman Catholics ramming their specific religious beliefs and behaviors down my throat, I've had Talibangelicals ramming their specific beliefs and behaviors down my throat.

And now I'm ramming mine right back, so to speak.

Forewarned is forearmed.

But remember, boys and girls, none of it is truly existent!

[In the non-nihilistic sense, you know, to wit, like not existent, not non-existent, not both existent and non-existent, nor something other than these.  Are we clear?]

Apparent yet unreal as summer rainbows . . .

Mu!

"Honor" Killings, now it's "Honor" Kisses? -- and more

The Hindu world is up in arms about -- no wait, that would be the racist sexist fundamentalist right-wing crackpot portion of the Hindu world (scions of the Gandhi-shooting subsect) --  American actor Richard Gere kissing Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. 

Like that's their business?

Some called for a public apology.

Some called for the actors' deaths.

Oh?

What-everr.

The perceived "connection" between the ego of some fundamentalist males and the sexual behavior/experiences  of females is what accounts for so-called "honor" killings.

I'm sure you're all well aware of that charming tradition.  Sort of like clitoridectomy, but more extensive.  And permanent.

(Don't they know that ego is essenceless?  Why not? Have they not read the stuff at the top of this page?  Kamalasila?  But he's, like, Indian!).

The current fracas probably will not cost Ms. Shetty her life, but she is being burned in effigy.  That can't be fun.

And I'd think that the mob mentality fueled by passion, aggression and ignorance (oh -- would that be the 3 poisons?) is not much fun, either.   (Remember the "Roses of the Prophet Mohammed" kerfuffle?)

Anyhow, there's all this attention to a shocking kiss (on the cheek!) that should be no one's business but Ms. Shetty's and Mr. Gere's,  but it does serve to overshadow the epidemic of AIDs among India's truckers and hookers.  Mr. Gere and Ms. Shetty were, you see, trying to get the truckers to use condoms.  A good idea.

So that's dumb stuff from India.  And there's sad stuff from America, at Virginia Tech.

Adhering to the classic dictum, "If I can't have you, no one can" -- sexism plus guns plus rage plus opportunity equals massacre.  [plus serious clinical issues, noticed by others, specific nature not known at this time].

Here we learn it was all the victim's fault, according to the shooter.  ("You caused me to do this.")

Here we learn that the helpful "Christians" from the Westboro Baptist Church are planning to protest at students' funerals, blaming the massacre on God's wrath due to our failure to burn homosexuals at the stake.

Here, "Domestic Violence and Virginia Tech:  It's all about power & control."  Let's note that security failed to followed up the first two murders because they were characterized as just a "domestic dispute."  And, you know, we don't care much about that.

Have a nice day.

Talibangelicals Breeding Army to Take Over the Universe. Meanwhile, They Beat Their Kids. Oppress Their Wives, and Drive People Like Andrea Yates Crazy.

How's this for a fun stroll down memory lane --  right back to the Dark Ages!

Chaos!  Total lack of planning!

Repudiation of the very concept of foresight!

Because -- foresight is SATANIC!

Planning is UNGODLY!

                         Birthing God's Mighty Warriors

                                                  by Rachel Scott

A hard-hitting, scripturally based expose on the emotional, physical, and spiritual damage caused by the secular idea of birth control.
 
We are living in the last days. An anointed generation must come to earth to help prepare the way of the Lord.  Many in this generation will be children. Will these chosen children be allowed to come?  Satan is trying hard to prevent their conceptions and births.

Birthing God’s Mighty Warriors exposes how Satan has used the secular idea of choice and modern medical advances to convince God’s people to limit their family size through birth control and sterilization.  Sadly, thousands of couples are suffering emotionally, physically, and spiritually because they have chosen their own path.

This book exposes how the enemy is using human reasoning, deception in the media, ideas in pop culture, and lack of knowledge of God’s Word to keep God’s people bound to a worldly mindset.

Birthing God’s Mighty Warriors offers hope for restoration through God’s forgiveness. By revealing truth, it challenges young couples to learn from the mistakes of the past so they can be open to bring forth this anointed generation of children.

Wow!  Thanks for all your timely tips, Rachel!!

We sure wouldn't want to USE the brains God gave us, would we?

He just gave us human reasoning, as like, some sort of omniscient afterthought.

Trust in God, but tie your camel to a tree.

No, wait, trust in God, and don't bother to tie your camel to a tree.

If God wants your camel not to wander off, he'll turn it into a pillar of salt.

But then it won't be a camel anymore. 

But there'll be a whole lot of salt.

                                    

I Almost Felt Sorry for Bill Donohue . . .

Almost.

Why?  Because he got SO skewered on the Easter Special episode of South Park.

See it if you can.  It's good for what ails you -- whatever that might be.

(I sure can't figger out why Trey Parker penned Donohue as a heartless thug -- can you?)

Here's what the Catholic League, in an unusual and welcome display of equanimity, said about this episode--

SOUTH PARK LAMPOONS BILL DONOHUE

          On last night’s episode of the Comedy Central show “South Park,” Catholic League president Bill Donohue appeared as one of the cartoon characters, along with a figure of Pope Benedict XVI. The Easter script depicted Donohue chastising the pope for being “too soft.” Donohue then takes over as Pope. When Jesus appears, Donohue has both the pope AND Jesus arrested. After Jesus orders Himself to be killed by Kyle, so he can resurrect himself-- Jesus kills Donohue with a ninja blade.

 

          Donohue commented on this today:

 

          “I have no idea why ‘South Park’ creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker caricature me as a heartless thug. In any event, I stand convicted and have no defense. Now I have to get back to business—I hear someone just took some liberties with the Easter Bunny.”

                                                 

Blowhard Billy Donohue Freaks Out About Chocolate, Overlooks Genocide and Wars

OK, so it was a close race.

There was Al "Buddhists Are Satanic" Mohler weighing in with a plea to hunt down homosexual embryos in the womb, and forcibly convert them -- not with the sword, but with the patch!

But Bad Boy Billy Donohue and his enormous, very big, crazy, very bad, very odd diatribe against the anatomically-correct all-Chocolate Jesus won hands down.

Here's what he said:

“I am contacting hundreds of organizations about this           assault. Our allied list contains scores of Catholic, Protestant,     Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu organizations, as well as secular groups, that share our concerns about religious hate speech and the degradation of our culture.

Anyhow, it's lucky he didn't contact me, because I for one DON'T share his concerns about, well, pretty much anything.  He seems an angry, hateful, spiteful bigot, and a damn poor Christian at that.  Which contributes, in my opinion, to the degradation of our culture.  You know, so there.

(He also said, interestingly, that "Lent is the season for non-believers to sow seeds of doubt about Jesus." I had had no clue that I was up to this! Wow!)

It's peculiar to this Buddhist that Bad Boy Billy is outraged that the chocolate Jesus may be, ultimately, eaten.

Is he completely unaware of what the Mass may look like to outsiders?  "Take, eat, this is my Body?" Most people (well, some) get that the Eucharist isn't about cannibalism, but, you know, most likely they're being diplomatic and PC.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.

But the topper was this:  "This is one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."

No, Billy.

Think Holocaust.  Think Pol Pot.  Think mass murder, genocide, torture.  Not milk chocolate, dude.  What's wrong with you?

Billy needs to repeat Sunday School.  Bad.

Even if someone insults you in the middle of a gathering,

Pointing out your hidden faults --

Bowing down respectfully, seeing that person

As a spiritual friend,

Is the practice of a bodhisattva.