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Originally posted by pulque
I'm not answering for anybody else, but I think the difference between an ideology and its adherents is that ideologies do not change their minds. ideologies dont change at all.
people, adherents, do.
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COME ON! Islam, communism, Christianity, Mormonism, Buddhism, Liberalism - sum total of the ideology plus the adherents and the actions taken by the adherents to give the ideology a physical existence.
Are we at war with Buddhists? NO! Because we all believe in Buddha? Is it becuase Buddhists think we are all ok people? Or is it because the adherents of Buddhism have not allowed the Buddhist ideology to be abused into attacking us?
We have a warrior ideology given a physical presence by the graduates of the Q. Without the ideology, we would be Air Force. Without the adherents, we would be simply an idea. Together, we are what we are because of what we believe and you can see it because we exist.