Right, but my understanding is that historically Buddhism did not spread through violence. My point was more that religion can spread for reasons that aren’t either violence or truth.
And Buddhist violence is mostly a result of British colonialism and the rise of nationalism, rather than something about the religion itself (whereas Christianity more directly encourages violence, especially against heathens, Muslims, etc.).
Whether the creation of Joseon was in reaction to Buddhist oppression or the anti-Buddhist movement was to secure legitimacy from Confucians is lost to history (read up to interpretation) but it still occurred
Islam exists because a warlord needed to control his territories, no idea why you would think they got violence from Christianity
Speculation that violence against Buddhists in Korea could imply maybe Buddhists were violent too is not only poor reasoning, but unnecessary when we have actual examples of Buddhist violence we could examine, for example in Sri Lanka or Myanmar. My point about Buddhist violence being a result of colonialism was more about the lack of evidence that Buddhism spread using violence.
I don’t see how Joseon provides an example of Buddhism spreading through violence, and even from your statement it doesn’t even seem like an example of Buddhist violence at all.
And your statement about Islam seems unrelated to my comments, I never suggested Islam “got violence from Christianity”, so overall I’m feeling a lot of confusion from your response.
Right, but my understanding is that historically Buddhism did not spread through violence. My point was more that religion can spread for reasons that aren’t either violence or truth.
And Buddhist violence is mostly a result of British colonialism and the rise of nationalism, rather than something about the religion itself (whereas Christianity more directly encourages violence, especially against heathens, Muslims, etc.).
Your Euro-centric history does not mean nothing happened elsewhere
true, but lack of evidence isn’t evidence for something …
Joseon was at times violently anti-Buddhist
Whether the creation of Joseon was in reaction to Buddhist oppression or the anti-Buddhist movement was to secure legitimacy from Confucians is lost to history (read up to interpretation) but it still occurred
Islam exists because a warlord needed to control his territories, no idea why you would think they got violence from Christianity
Speculation that violence against Buddhists in Korea could imply maybe Buddhists were violent too is not only poor reasoning, but unnecessary when we have actual examples of Buddhist violence we could examine, for example in Sri Lanka or Myanmar. My point about Buddhist violence being a result of colonialism was more about the lack of evidence that Buddhism spread using violence.
I don’t see how Joseon provides an example of Buddhism spreading through violence, and even from your statement it doesn’t even seem like an example of Buddhist violence at all.
And your statement about Islam seems unrelated to my comments, I never suggested Islam “got violence from Christianity”, so overall I’m feeling a lot of confusion from your response.