--- "Joseph S. Barrera III" <joe at barrera.org> wrote:
> Guest wrote:
>
> > everyone I know here in Taiwan sincerely believes
> in ghosts, and not
> > in some abstract, half serious way. They take
> active measures to
> > guard against spiritual attacks in daily life. I
> never saw anything
> > remotely like it in America.
>
> Does their belief in ghosts shape whom they vote
> for?
>
> - Joe
> --
In the last presidential election at least one high profile religious leader threw his weight behind the kuomintang candidate. Most of the people I talked to disapproved of his taking sides at all, since it's considered unseemly for monks to get involved in politics.
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