Bad Karma!

For some reason, this picture (and news story--Click here: Buddhist monks clash in Cambodia amid anti-Vietnam protest ) cracked me up--Buddhist monks duking it out with each other in Cambodia.  This monk looks like he knows a thing or two about throwing a punch! 

But the Buddhists are not alone.  Here's a recent story about two people stabbed during a fight between priests and nuns in a convent on the island of Cyprus.  Unfortunately, there were no pictures (Click here: Two stabbed and two arrested in convent fracas - Yahoo! News).

Yes, ours is a fallen race!  The vows undertaken by those in religious orders don't do much to control human sin.  In fact, I'll bet they just make things worse . . .

Comments

[Chris Sherman]

Another religion of peace

[zrim]

images in contradiction: now you need to find a picture of evangelicals worshipping...oh wait, you have plenty of those in your back pages.

zrim

[Tyler]

Wonderful post, Kim! At first I was laughing (and still am) at how silly those Buddhist monks are, fighting eachother, and then hey, Christians do it too!

[Echo_ohcE]

Hmmm...I guess it's not our word, I guess it's not our commitment that is effectual for our salvation. Hmmm...

[Chris Sherman]

Actually, I think he is Shaolin priest doing a poor Kwai Chang Caine imitation.

[Terry J]

For someone who grew up watching a lot of "Kung Fu Theater" on Saturday afternoons, this is not that surprising. Looks like an old school Shaolin vs. Wu Tang throwdown.

[Jeff A.]

Instant karma gonna getcha right in the face...

It amazes me how much we are prone to conflict even within our own groups (be they religious, ethnic, national, etc.)

[timinator]

I was under the impression that the munks were quiet and reserved, well I quess that was the good old days when they would not kill a bug. Now it looks like karma does not mean anything to them. I wonder where this monk got his training as they do not fight?

[zrim]

oh, come on now. that someone violates his creed doesn't make him an all-out hypocrite, folks. before we get too carried away and revel in our "gotch'ya" recall our own legacies in christendom or fractures in the unity we profess.

zrim

[nobody]

thanks zrim - you always seem to know how to put us all in our place.

[turmeric]

Ah, Grasshopper...approach that you may learn! Boot to the head!