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Started 8 months ago by Coy
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Coy
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Granted, this is fairly minor in the grand scheme of things, and it may be just one voice out there, but I still gotta shake my head a bit.

Either at the willingness of a Pataskala resident to broadcast their desire to segregate themselves from anything non-Christian, and the accompanying nutty Fox News speech...
Or just the Dispatch for printing it.

(disclaimer: I am a Buddhist)

Original story:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/faith_and_values/2011/08/26/a-home-for-buddhists.html

Letter to the editor:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2011/09/07/city-made-things-too-easy-for-temple.html

I, for one, can say that if our purpose as Buddhists was really "to undermine and transform our Christian faith, standards and culture" .... then, man, we really suck at our job.
LOL.

Posted 8 months ago #
Tenzo
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Why can't they build it somewhere else?
I think it insensitive of the Buddhists to try on convert an area so close to the tenth anniversary of 9/11

Posted 8 months ago #
Coy
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Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your husband, cause they blessin' er'rbody out here!

Posted 8 months ago #
the_linotypist
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Just like the people who opposed the misnamed "Ground Zero Mosque." Only people who wear white sheets and burn crosses would have any objection.

Posted 8 months ago #
Tenzo
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the_linotypist said:
Just like the people who opposed the misnamed "Ground Zero Mosque." Only people who wear white sheets and burn crosses would have any objection.

http://churchoutlet.com/Robes.aspx

Posted 8 months ago #
dubdave00
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I'd forgive him if he were born in 1820. I'm guessing that's not the case? ;-)

Let's be honest about the "opposition". That guy would probably write a letter to the editor if a white democrat or a Catholic moved in next door.

Posted 8 months ago #
alexs
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Coy said:
I, for one, can say that if our purpose as Buddhists was really "to undermine and transform our Christian faith, standards and culture" .... then, man, we really suck at our job.
LOL.

In one of the episodes of Deadwood, there's a comment about Chinamen like "Those people worship a fat man sitting on his ass." Which, when you think about it, is pretty simple compared to explaining the whole crucifix scenario.

Posted 8 months ago #
bman
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I say we all write letters to the Dispatch saying Pataskala needs less people like the clown who penned the original letter.

Posted 8 months ago #
JimL2

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That letter has to be a joke.

As a community, we are knowingly or unknowingly shrugging our shoulders and allowing this event to transpire before our eyes with a ho-hum attitude; not even a modest display of opposition.

This is my favorite part, because he's complaining that everyone's taking a very Buddhist attitude towards the whole situation.

Posted 8 months ago #
Rockmastermike
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I'm surprised the Dispatch even printed a letter like that. It's just mindless bigotry. It makes me sad that Danny Biggers is around sucking up perfectly good oxygen that could be going to much better use. What a flaming asshole.

Hey Danny, if you're reading this, bite my crank.

Posted 8 months ago #
lifeontwowheels
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Rockmastermike said:
I'm surprised the Dispatch even printed a letter like that. It's just mindless bigotry. It makes me sad that Danny Biggers is around sucking up perfectly good oxygen that could be going to much better use. What a flaming asshole.

Hey Danny, if you're reading this, bite my crank.

You're surprised? I'm not. They tend to print these crank asshat letters at least 1-2 times a month.

Posted 8 months ago #
Rockmastermike
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lifeontwowheels said:
You're surprised? I'm not. They tend to print these crank asshat letters at least 1-2 times a month.

thats the finest example of pigheaded buffoonery i've seen in quite a while

Posted 8 months ago #
swansonguy
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makes me sad...

Posted 8 months ago #
Mr Man

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lifeontwowheels said:
You're surprised? I'm not. They tend to print these crank asshat letters at least 1-2 times a month.

The question being, are they doing this to shine a spotlight on the idiocy? Or to serve as some kind of bully pulpit? Even given the ownership and editorial board, I always assume the former.

Posted 8 months ago #
kit444
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I imagine Mr. Biggers is very proud that his limited form of wisdom made print. Imagine how he'd react if someone put one of those atheist billboards in his neighborhood!

Posted 8 months ago #
alexs
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Oddly enough, his complaint about idol worship squares with the Taliban who destroyed the ancient Buddha statues In Bamiyan.

I wonder if he even knows about the role of icons in the Greek and Russian orthodox churches.

Posted 8 months ago #
Coy
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Mr Man said:
The question being, are they doing this to shine a spotlight on the idiocy? Or to serve as some kind of bully pulpit? Even given the ownership and editorial board, I always assume the former.

A quick search shows that ol' Danny has had a couple of other letters to the editor published by the Dispatch.
I'll not bother to link his drivel here, but he has a nice way of framing "birth certificate" with quotations when talking about Pres. Obama, and more of the usual Fox News regurgitant you'd expect.

I'd almost think he was a pseudonym for a Dispatch employee... if we weren't talking about Pataskala... :)

Posted 8 months ago #
groundrules

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Mr Man said:
The question being, are they doing this to shine a spotlight on the idiocy? Or to serve as some kind of bully pulpit? Even given the ownership and editorial board, I always assume the former.

hey that crap spawned a message board discussion and more than a few clicks to the dispatch editorial page (which I wouldn't have been to without it), so maybe there's that. Controversy makes for marketable content i guess.

Posted 8 months ago #