Barb'ry said, in part:


I wonder if all religions are inherently violent, even Buddhism (ok, not a real religion)...

Where do you get off saying that a religion that you don't agree with, which has a different orientation from that which you are familiar "is not a real religion"?

There are millions of people in this world who do consider Buddhism a "real religion". That makes it one, despite whatever definition you might want to offer, based on the religious view you have presumably been immersed in since birth. So don't say, "ok, not a real religion", with the "ok" as if to say that everyone of course would have objected to calling it a religion.

Same with Tao and Confucianism.

Dave Oesterreich