On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:40 am Post subject: Ayatollah Megabyte |
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In an attempt to placate the Buddhist community�s anger over what it calls disrespect by the Lee Myung-bak administration, the government yesterday issued an order to ministries to maintain strict religious neutrality.
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All well and good, but you kind of wonder how anyone in the government thought that any of this was a good idea in the first place.
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President Lee is a Protestant, and the Buddhist community has complained that most cabinet ministers and presidential aides are tied to the president�s religion.
The complaints reached a peak last month when the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs removed all Buddhist temples nationwide from an online map of the state-run traffic system.
Christian churches and cathedrals around the nation remained on the map, first created in 2003.
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Like, they really thought that they'd be able to get away with that in a country that's 25% Buddhist?
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Fueling the Buddhists� anger over what they called the government�s bias against their religion were actions by Eo Cheong-soo, the national police chief, promoting the evangelization of police officers.
On June 24, his photo was published on a poster promoting �fasting prayer to evangelize all the police.�
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I guess that was a privately distributed poster, but it still doesn't say much for the government's sense of neutrality that the guy had no problem allowing his picture to appear to begin with.
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�The administration is not religiously biased, but mistakes have worsened the situation,� a Blue House official said.
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Uh yeah. We're not religiously biased, it's just that we made the mistake of engaging in religious bias.
I know a lot of these Buddhist groups don't have the best reputation over here, and probably for good reason. Still, I'm glad they stood up to the government on this issue. Otherwise, god knows what they'd try to get away with.
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