Dalai Lama condemns religious people who lack compassion

[laura888]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111201080.html

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"People who call themselves religious without basic human values like compassion, they are not really religious people," he told the audience, offering no names. "They are hypocrites." The words were unusually critical for a speaker who likes to emphasize the positive and productive.
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[DrDebug]

1. Hmm he visited Bush

Can't be related, can it?

[laura888]

3. Exactly! How can someone be compassionate...

...and also support torture?

[insane_cratic_gal]

11. how can someone be compassionate

and support the killings of Iraqis and our troops?

If it were two strangers who pulled guns on each other we'd call it murder.

When it's 10k or 100k people murdering one another, we call it war, but not murder?
We leave the word murder hanging silently on the lips of victims loved ones. Which only breeds more anger and more hatred, more war and more murder.

[darkmaestro019]

2. (sigh) I usually put "I'd like to buy you a drink"

but I'm pretty sure the Dalai Lama doesn't drink. Perhaps an IOU one very large sincere hug. Truth to power. (applause)

[catmother]

4. i love the dalai lama. just listening to him and looking at him

makes me feel peaceful and calm.

[WiseButAngrySara]

9. Same here! He radiates compassion. ....n/t

[shenmue]

5. Speak the truth

:applause:

:7

:thumbsup:

[Skidmore]

6. To which the sanctimonious trio of Falwell, Robertson, and Dobson

would reply that his opinion don't count cause he's an unsaved heathen.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Hear that idiot-in-chief? You're a hypocrite.

Dalai Lama says so and I agree!

[applegrove]

8. What a great philosophy he teaches. And rewards are so much

for people who live by compassion. It is the only way to fly.

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. A Dalai Lama Quote which is the antithesis of B* et al:

"The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well being becomes."