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> I was taught it was shameful to be angry, and my main religious experience was with Buddhism, which says anger is always purely bad. Sorry to hear that you e
by vmfunction 2y ago
> I was taught it was shameful to be angry, and my main religious experience was with Buddhism, which says anger is always purely bad.
Sorry to hear that you encountered buddhist practitioners who made you think that. Don't think shame is part of buddhist teaching. However, this kind of techniques quite common across all religious zealots, buddhist or not.
- programjames 2y agoI don't think you meant to invalidate their experience, but that's how I feel when I've been told similar stuff like, "sorry you went through that ... it's not actually part of the religion ... and all religions are like that anyway." Zealots are often that way because they're more orthodox/literal with their religion, and anyways, why is your interpretation of a religion more accurate than theirs?
- bowsamic 2y agoI predicted this response quite well