Even if you could demonstrably prove that a work of fiction is not particularly "nice" to a religion, no artist has any kind of moral or social responsibility to be "nice" to a religion they don't care for, whether it's an imperializing one or not
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I tend to be of the opinion that if you're sad about somebody dipping a plastic crucifix in piss then you don't possess any inherent right not to be
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It is feasible to believe a philosophy is garbage, independent of the religion it is attached to, or the culture attached to that I tend to think Christianity has an incredibly vile belief system My opinion of the belief systems of many sects of Judaism is not much rosier
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Being trans is a lifetime of watching your own dignity be treated as zero-sum with the dignity of a million people who are trying to hurt you in the name of their perverted god So I get really cynical about people bellyaching about "disrespect" to their beliefs in any capacity
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I mean it's a perfectly fair criticism -- in fact, a *necessary* criticism if you don't want to be an Orientalist weirdo -- that "Western Buddhism" ("Protestant Buddhism", as some call it) is very very different from traditional Buddhism as practiced almost everywhere
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And that traditional Buddhism is, yes, pretty damn homophobic and by extension transphobic and ordinary people raised in that tradition are gonna disappoint you as much as anyone else
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Like, sure, you can *construct* a version of Buddhism that doesn't fit that description and many people have but in ordinary everyday Buddhism being gay is a "vice" born of untamed desire just like sleeping around or eating too much or gambling is
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but Arthur, it's supposed to be a truism that all bigotry is a manifestation of Western influence
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