John Petry, lawyer and lay leader of the Nichiren Shu [paraphrased]: "The [Christian] United States is as bad as ISIS"
He has absolutely no gratitude for the country of his birth where he is free to practice the religion and sexuality of his choosing without the slightest fear of having his head separated from his body. Were he practicing the same faith as Nichiren Daishonin, he would be able to see clearly. He would never say such a stupid thing. To rely on the Nichiren Shu to arrive at such a splendid place [the Buddha's land] is as futile as finding "water in the midst of fire".
Here is a hint Rogow - if you are going to state something is a paraphrase then do not put quotation marks around it since that indicates it is a direct quote. Here is a simple primer on the use of quotation marks:
ReplyDelete1. Quotation marks designate dialogue.
2. Quotation marks designate titles of poems, articles or shorter works of writing.
3. Quotation marks designate that what you’re saying should not be taken at face value.
Since I never said what you claim I said, I am going to assume you mean number three.
"I can only pray for the poor young man who was beheaded. He has paid a:horrific price for the imperial pretensions of the Bush Administration." -- John Petry
ReplyDeleteThere's plenty more where this came from, John Petry vilifying the United States while creating a moral equivalency where none exists, and claiming that the Muslim fundamentalists are an aberration of the Islamic faith. I don't have time to find the exact quote of Petry's that matches my post but it is there and if he persists, I will make the time to find it.