Some words of politics

Thus, whereas religion requires that people must improve internally and morally, and accordingly generally maintains a certain realism and patience about the speed of such transformation (over a period of one or a number of lives), political ideology, acknowledging no inner life and no future lives, demands immediate obedience. It is thus willing to punish ideological non- conformity severely. It categorises people into sinner and saved – now re-christened ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ – just as swiftly and confidently as any old-time Puritan preacher. It polices all signs and manifestations of ideological non-conformity with the zeal of any Inquisitor. Lama Jampa Thaye Buddhism in Exile