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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by growlist on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:49PM (#19861757)
You see no irony in us being asked to mourn the destruction of a religious shrine for a person that himself participated in the deliberate destruction of multiple shrines purely on the basis of differing religion. Okay then!
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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:07PM (#19861878)
I'm saying the people who went to that shrine weren't necessarily endorsing one thing that happened a thousand years ago. Lots of people revere Moses without endorsing slaughter and rape. The shrine served a spiritual function for a group of people; that gives it meaning. Unless you can provide evidence that those who visited it spent their time advocating violence, its meaning in their lives, and therefore its value, isn't diminished.
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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by dang on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:35PM (#19862112)
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and certainly not religious flamewar.

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