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I found this article ( 2 small pages) and wondered if others might like to comment on the article. I'd also be interested in what your thoughts are regarding the last sentence in the quote below, which states that "Buddhists, as human beings, can be just as fundamentalist as the next religious person."



Fundamentalist Buddhists, Fundamentalist People


by Scott Mitchell

"Fundamentalism" for most folks conjures up images of ultra-conservative Christians on the one hand or Islamic extremists on the other. I'd hazard a guess that most folks don't associate "fundamentalism" and Buddhism. Notable scholar of American religions Thomas Tweed once asked, in the journal Material Religion, "Why are Buddhists so nice?" In that article, he documented portrayals of Buddhists in American media as peaceful, pacifists even, and generally accepting folks who seem immune to group-think and fundamentalist extremism.

That's not true, of course. Buddhists, as human beings, can be just as fundamentalist as the next religious person."


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