{"id":3335,"date":"2009-01-21T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T09:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/21\/buddhists-are-citizens-too\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T09:54:05","slug":"buddhists-are-citizens-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/21\/buddhists-are-citizens-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhists Are Citizens Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of people are giving Obama props for the shout-out to atheists in his inaugural address, but I’m deeply concerned about what he said. Or, rather, what he didn’t say:<\/p>\n

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We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Where are the Buddhists? He left out a major world religion!<\/p>\n

“Oh, well, what harm can it do?” you may be thinking. “There aren’t that many Buddhists in the US, after all, and they’re not really concerned with worldly things.” This is a dangerously naive view of the world.<\/p>\n

If pop culture teaches us anything, it’s don’t mess with the Buddhists<\/i>. The smiling little bald dude in the saffron robe may look harmless, but if you provoke him, he will mess you up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For the sake of the nation, I call on President Obama to issue an immediate apology, before Pai Mei and his five-point palm exploding heart technique come into play. We can’t afford the chaos that would result.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, Obama spent those childhood years in Indonesia learning some kick-ass martial arts<\/a> (hey, man, it could happen). In which case, pass the popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of people are giving Obama props for the shout-out to atheists in his inaugural address, but I’m deeply concerned about what he said. Or, rather, what he didn’t say: We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. Where are the Buddhists? He left out a major world religion!… Continue reading Buddhists Are Citizens Too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,37,30,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-pop_culture","category-religion","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}