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labrador
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Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the...
> Silicon Valley is the latest player in a history of Western appropriation of Buddhism
Well it works both ways with many Asians appropriating Christianity
/sarcasm
pessimizer
on July 12, 2022
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The reason you appropriate Christianity is to get some of that colonizer cash or, farther back, under pain of torture and death.
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Well it works both ways with many Asians appropriating Christianity
/sarcasm