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...Thai man with a tiger tatooed on his right leg showed up at his own funeral and shocked mourners after discovering that the unknown corpse (with a tiger tatoo on the left leg) had been blessed by Bhuddist monks...
...would eagerly displace Ky at their first chance, Buddists in Saigon and throughout the countryside remain antagonistic to any government of Saigonese Catholics. Ky has been notably more tolerant towards the Buddists than his predecessors, but the fact that the Catholic minority still holds power over the large Bhuddist majority will continue to preclude a concensus. Student demonstrations against the harsh martial law which Ky imposed last June became so intense during September that the Premier was forced to suppress them with troops. When the government made support of neutralism a capital offense on July 24, several moderates and academics...
Perhaps the most tragic example of the destruction of Vietnamese liberalism is the case of Pham Ngoc Thao, a former Colonel in the Vietnamese Air Force. Pham, an active Catholic, was sentenced to death in absentia on May 7 after he, along with Ky, attempted an abortive coup against Bhuddist Premier Quat. When the Quat regime fell one month later, Pham should certainly have received amnesty. But in fact, Ky kept him on the wanted list...
This idea of liberal religion also contains the idea of tolerance. If religious experience is the sole thing, then creed and dogma are forgotten. A Bhuddist can have as uplifting religious experiences as a Christian. This view makes every man your brother...
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