[KS] Re: Religious Intolerance

[Laurel Kendall]

Frank,

Please include me on your "select list."

--Laurel Kendall


At 09:54 AM 8/5/98 +0900, you wrote:
>K-S Listers:
>
>It seems that my postings have upset some folks. I guess you can't satisfy
>everyone all the time. Those among who appreciate my daily scanning for
>interesting & diverse articles from sundry Korea-oriented newspapers
>related to Korean culture can contact me and I will include you on a select
>list to receive articles. I am interested in a wide variety of things
>Korean, from different perspectives and disciplines. I like the "softer
>side" of Korea which does not get much press in the West. My years at the
>Korean National Commission for Unesco exposed me to things "forced" me to
>experience aspects of Korea I probably would not have stumbled across
>otherwise.
>
>As for religious intolerance, I am concerned about justice. It is clearly
>unjust for religious fanatics to physically attack Buddhist monuments and
>houses of worship with impunity as they have been doing over too many years
>now. You may read my article in the Journal of Buddhist -Christian Studies,
>v.17 if you wish background and documentation. It is available on the web
>also at Http://www.chez.com/sarana/grez/CKorea.htm
>
>I have recently been invited to join a group of psychiatrists in Korea who
>are convening an inter-faith symposium the end of September to address the
>resolution of religious conflict (and possible war) which is brewing now.
>The problem can not be denied any longer; the roots of the troubles will be
>examined.
>
>As for Pankaj Mohan's long letter, I am reminded of an eerie tale of the
>Brahman Kritaakrita translated from the Sanskrit entitled "Underdone,
>overdone, undone!" (F.W. Bain, 1901). "What has been done is too little,
>too much, and not done at all." 
>
>Fraom sweltering Seoul,
>
>Frank Tedesco
>"People who usually bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the
>boot that kicks them."
>--Eric Hoffer
>
>
>



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