re: "Ignoring Buddha" (BP, PostBag, July 13, 2020)
Dear editor,
Michael Setter, if the Buddha were to reincarnate in Thailand today and start preaching his ideas about right understanding, compassion and the like, not to mention the first precept of Buddhism, he would be charged with causing social panic at the very least, and very likely fomenting sedition. The Computer Crimes Act and other Thai rule by law would do its job of silencing unwelcome speech based on sound thinking.
Similarly, were Jesus to appear in the US, he would be out on the streets protesting the failures of the "nice" conservatives, who preach law and order to protect their beloved traditions that have wrought a bitterly divided, unjust US society characterized by demonized groups stigmatized by intolerant bigotry. And as do those claiming righteousness to oppress in the US today, so too did the Jewish Sanhedrin 2,000 years ago, those paragons of the conservative status quo of many generations of ancestors unquestioningly proud of their heritage, have Jesus put to death by strict rule of law for his rabble rousing on the streets of ancient Jesusalem and his quintessentially Christ-like disrespect of traditional authority in the temples and society, as bluntly related in the gospels of the Christian Bible.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 14, 2020, under the title "Problem for Buddha" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1950916/hide-and-sikh
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