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It doesn't take a great deal of insight or common sense to see its relevance to the statement: "If all of these sects were to..." If you can interpret the metaphors and similes in the Pali suttas, this should not be a challenge.

There is a huge difference, FBM. People are born with their sex. The various sects choose whether to reference the teachings of the Buddha or not. Clint asked if there was aqsolution to the problem of discord and sectarianism. I pointed out a solution.

Yet another straw man claim? To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail, I guess. It is inded a straw man. You are misrepresenting what I am saying. It's also an ad hominem.

And I don't think it's a straw man. I think you just don't (yet?) see how you've fallen into the same emotional trap as those you rail against. That is not the case. Again, Clint posed a problem, I pointed to a solution. All this "save the world" crap is a distortion of what I am saying.

It's not the "domain and mandate of the superstitious," because there are a lot of non-superstitious people who have lofty ideals and rant and rave when the world doesn't conform to them. It's the domain of the mahayana.

Anyone from politicians to engineers to Theravadin monks are subject to that same trap.
But that is not what I'm doing. And that's what makes it a straw man.