IF BUDDHISTS want to argue that the Jewish conception of justice is an illusion - and if there are any who want to argue that justice is real I would love it if you'd speak up LOUDLY to that effect - then the use of Buddhism by some of the most shamelessly malignant human beings among us today (Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey) makes their shameless evil far more understandable.
I was quite honest in my criticism of Buddhists and Buddhism's alleged non-theism as well as my criticism of Christians and Jews and their alleged belief in God. I don't see how you can accept the criticism of those who act as if they believed justice is an illusion when they're Christians and Jews who merely claim to believe in the source that teaches it is among the most real of realities but fall short and reject that criticism of people who claim it's an illusion and, in so many instances, act as if they really believe that.
I remember reading somewhere, back in the 60s or 70s a teacher of meditation warning that without a basic holding to morality that meditation would just make evil people more efficient in their evil doing. If you remove God from it, a comprehensible source of morals as real, you're begging for trouble. One of the worst things about the Catholic and Orthodox traditions was the extent to which nominal believers just left all of that stuff to the pros, the monks, the clergy, the religous in their communities. It was bad for The People, it was bad for the pros. I think Buddhism, especially in its cheapened, capitalist-inflected, show-biz-public relations oriented. faddish American form is at least as bad as the worst of those.
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