I understand @evantthompson to be saying here not that religious practice per se seeks to "sanitize" a religion, but that one particular read on that religion, Buddhist modernism, scoots some of the less scientifically compatible aspects of Buddhist practice into the corner.
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As is always the case in claiming religious authority. What gets ignored? What gets centered? And I haven't read his book yet either (tho it's sounding like maybe I should) but I think whiteness is also an important factor to remember when thinking re western approaches Buddhism.
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Tiny quibble: I'm on team "lets stop using 'Judeo-Christian' which serves to erase the distinctive Jewishness of Judaism, subsuming it into Christianity, in ways that are comparable to what I gather Thompson is saying about Buddhist modernist claims to represent all of Buddhism.
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Fair. I linked them in the article because of their joint participation as historical and conceptual sources of scientific ideas.
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