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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
I think it's a perfectly valid question, and I also think if people truly believed they wouldn't get upset over having their beliefs challenged. <snip> I think the real reason people must be so sensitive is because they don't actually believe, or to some degree think it's absurd to believe.
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Roughly summed up, I believe people get defensive about stuff they care about. It's a simple, plausible explanation which explains not just why some people may get angry in discussions about religion, but also about cats, cookery or what have you.
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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
Challenge a Buddhist's beliefs, for instance, and there's nothing you could do to get them heated. Call the Buddha a donkey's ass... they'll only think you're making an ass of yourself.
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That's a nice hypothesis, but for argument's sake, you don't actually know if this is true. At least not for all buddhists.
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