Christian and Buddhist Life Assessments
CONTRASTING the spirit actuating so-called Christians and that manifested by Buddhists, in China, a contributor to Japan and America says: “The Christians have levied assessment for loss of life; the Buddhists have refused to demand payment for blood shed in anger and blind fury. The Christians, according to General Chaffee, who fears nothing save a lie and dishonesty, have a sliding scale of these life assessments. In one town the assessments for indemnity exacted, or sought to be exacted, with the approval of the American commander, was $17.50; in another it was $48; in a third, it was $157; and in a fourth it was as much as $350.” Who has commissioned these so-called Christians to place any valuation upon the life of any other human being, Christian or not?