Why Secular Buddhism is Not True

[anon29387788]

Oh hear! Hear!!!

It’s not enough to simply like your post @AnagarikaMichael …I need to say that I’m cheering it very loudly indeed!!!

Since our Guidelines have been quoted, I’d like to bring attention to this aspect of it too:

@sujato

Please avoid:

Name-calling.

Ad hominem attacks.
Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content.
Knee-jerk contradiction.
Passive-aggressive tactics.
Psycho-analysing other commenters.
Threatening people with kammic retribution!

My emphasis.

So perhaps this, wasn’t such a good place to come from:

@Ted_Meissner

Saddened, continually, by the tone of this article.

…again, my emphasis.

I was saddened to visit the forum referred to and find that words that caused the writer the most offense were quoted out of context, right at the start of his essay; where a busy reader, simply scanning quickly, would pick up an unfortunate and thoroughly inaccurate picture of Bhante Sujato.

@sujato

It seems my little post created a bit of a stir. Funnily enough, I’ve written some hundreds of posts and articles on the minutiae of Pali grammar and other fascinating topics, and they never get such attention. But a few caffeine-fueled paragraphs written as a diversion on a quiet morning has taken off.

Yes well, it’s when our deepest, dearest, most fixedly held ideologies are threatened; our blindest of blind spots, our thickest delusions; our bases of power and adoration; our sources of income, are threatened, that we begin to feel the need to discuss things and debate hard. And I’m including myself in this; I reckon our sore spots and hardest sense of self comes out to play in such situations. (Which is probably why posts about nuns/women/gender are still so very popular.) But then there’s others, like you Bhante, who are coming from a place of concern for the welfare of others, you’re not getting anything else out of this. I am all for you having regular and frequent access to caffeine!