The root cause is not this......
The root cause is at certain teachings, ideology, emphasis,
beliefs, and preachings......
In other words,
To instill a more respectful attitude, it is difficult to just
tamp the fire through social or political means.....or apologize
whenever certain offensive acts or words happen, etc......it should
be at the fundamental religious level.
In other words,
The religious leadership should stress more and emphasize more
on tolerance, respect, and sensitivity. It is possible to do it
from a religious angle and with scriptural interpretation.
I so agree with you and with dawn. But the thing is that most of
such cases were not handled with a religious approach to it.
Looking at the words of the posters it implies that buddhism does
not equate to happiness and so buddhist in thailand is not
happy.
But the apology made came in "a wrong choice of word" rather
than a "wrong religious approach/wrong teachings/wrong
attitude/mentallity" which could mean the idea/message to be
brought across is still correct, just that the words used are
"wrong" to them.
As of what i know understand from the christian forum, to them,
only theirs is true and the rest is not true. So it is the exact
opposite of dawn's post.
