ext_36450 ([identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-12-14 02:07 am (UTC)

It's less the school than "Most Japanese schools don't employ janitors, but the point is not to cut costs. Rather, the practice is rooted in Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality-a concept that contrasts sharply with the Greco-Roman notion of cleaning as a menial task best left to the lower classes."

I assume that Gunslnger accepts that Gingrich is a Christian, not a Sinitic-Buddhist like the Japanese form of that philosophy is. If Gingrich is a closet Buddhist then I think the GOP would have exposed that and claimed he's a force of Satan's evil by now.

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