[Buddha-l] NYTimes.com: Let Us Pray for Wealth

[curt]

SJZiobro at cs.com wrote:
> the typical, banal, and mendacious claim that only Christians impose 
> their values upon others, implying that non-Christians do not, and 
> this regardless of the evidence in the realm of legislation, law, 
> politics, education, etc.

I am unaware of any religions other than Christianity and Islam that are 
responsible for the deliberate, systematic extirpation of other 
religions. If you or anyone could provide any examples of even *one* 
religion that has been wiped off the face of the planet by Buddhists, or 
Hindus, or Taoists, or Shintos, etc - it would be a significant 
contribution to our knowledge of comparative religion.

On the other hand - if there are no such examples - then that cannot be 
glossed over. In fact it leads inexorably to the conclusion that there 
are two kinds of religion:

(1) religions that systematically extirpate other religions
(2) religions that do not

Maybe I'm missing something - but this appears to be a significant 
distinction.

Curt Steinmetz