OP’s post is a reaction to people who react to people who say “all religions are bad” by saying “nuh uh, Buddhists never did anything wrong”. Your experience or lack thereof with such people will dictate whether this feels like a strawman or not.
It is most definitely not a “Buddhism is bad because some Buddhists are bad” argument.
In that case, the problem originates in playing the game thats rules are set by the ignorant in the first place.
If someone says “all religions are bad,” the proper response isn’t to engage with it as you would with a rational argument made in good faith; i.e. by perhaps offering counterexamples. Because it’s not a rational argument made in good faith.
The proper response is to reject the assertion on the basis that its an absolute statement and an overgeneralization. And then going into the ethics of such a chauvinistic, exceptionalistic, and culturally-imperialistic statement as “all religions are bad.”
The point isn’t to put any religion on a pedestal. But anti-religious bigotry doesn’t belong on that pedestal either.
chauvinistic, exceptionalistic, and culturally-imperialistic statement as “all religions are bad.”
Okay you’re gonna have to explain to me what the heck anti-theism has to do with chauvinism or imperialism or bigotry or any of those words. Cause it sounds like you’re doing an academia word salad to sound superior to others, but whose text when you parse it doesn’t really mean anything at all. Like Jordan Peterson, but leftish.
seems to be one of those people who wants to say, “ah but my particular interpretation of my particular religion is good, it’s just all the other ones that are bad”
OP’s post is a reaction to people who react to people who say “all religions are bad” by saying “nuh uh, Buddhists never did anything wrong”. Your experience or lack thereof with such people will dictate whether this feels like a strawman or not.
It is most definitely not a “Buddhism is bad because some Buddhists are bad” argument.
In that case, the problem originates in playing the game thats rules are set by the ignorant in the first place.
If someone says “all religions are bad,” the proper response isn’t to engage with it as you would with a rational argument made in good faith; i.e. by perhaps offering counterexamples. Because it’s not a rational argument made in good faith.
The proper response is to reject the assertion on the basis that its an absolute statement and an overgeneralization. And then going into the ethics of such a chauvinistic, exceptionalistic, and culturally-imperialistic statement as “all religions are bad.”
The point isn’t to put any religion on a pedestal. But anti-religious bigotry doesn’t belong on that pedestal either.
Okay you’re gonna have to explain to me what the heck anti-theism has to do with chauvinism or imperialism or bigotry or any of those words. Cause it sounds like you’re doing an academia word salad to sound superior to others, but whose text when you parse it doesn’t really mean anything at all. Like Jordan Peterson, but leftish.
seems to be one of those people who wants to say, “ah but my particular interpretation of my particular religion is good, it’s just all the other ones that are bad”