Soooo...

I get a LOT of flack for being an atheist - compound that when I state my position that Buddhism is, in fact, just another religion and needs to not be treated as a 'philosophy' and therefore above reproach. As though there isn't a gendered hierarchy (there is), as though a privileged man does run things (he does), and that abuse doesn't happen (it does!).

OF COURSE IT DOES BECAUSE THERE IS A POWER IMBALANCE THAT SEES VULNERABLE PEOPLE ABUSED.

Case in point: the top guy of the Buddhist cult just apologised because he was caught telling a young boy he kissed on his mouth to "suck my tongue".

All religions and their representatives need to be held legally accountable, pay taxes and be subject to critical thinking, transparency and be called out on their bullshite and abuses.

All of them.

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