"Brenda J. Walker" wrote: > On 23 Oct 2001, at 11:39, Richard Stevens wrote: > > > > > If America was Buddhist, it would have been destroyed and overun long ago, > > > > Who said anything about America becoming Buddhist?
(Brenda, no one did, but what a cool idea!) Correct English: "If America were..." not "was." If the above statement were really true, about if America were Buddhist it would be destroyed, then I'd be ashamed to be Christian. But America is a country and a country is neither Buddhist nor Christian, nor of any other faith. And what a false sort of a comparable statement anyway. China has been a predominately Buddhist nation by population for a long time and last time I checked, still there after all these millennia. Meanwhile, Jesus was whatever Jesus was and ended up dead. (the Rev) Vince
