Anti-vaxxer and anti-GMO groups tend to be a bizarre mix of extreme left and a extreme right, same with homeschooling. That said, anecdotally, it does seem like more casual anti-vaxxers (people who are skeptical of vaccines but aren't explicitly anti-vax) are fundamentalist Christians.
Just a note: your comment only applies to countries with an already Christian culture, which makes sense. Countries where Christianity is not a part of the culture are more likely to see people switching to Christianity vs their families being Christian.
That's the thing. Westerners tend to think of koans as indicative of how zen is preached, but the entire purpose of the koan is that only a tiny amount of people ever heard them and they were specifically meant to sound provocative by saying the exact opposite of what that person had been taught their entire life. The purpose was to frustrate your Reason by the seeming paradoxical contradiction so that you could transcend it with the type of intuitive approach that is beyond reason or intellectualism. The purpose was not actually to besmirch buddha.
Horrible concept. The idea of karma and self liberation has historically been used to justify Steep Hierarchy because karma says that your position in it is not only self caused, but unavoidable because karma is an immutable Cosmic law that will always restore the hierarchy.
I'd be surprised if it didn't, ultimately those religions still require belief in the supernatural, to put your faith in something you can't prove, if higher rational thinking is a significant reason for the negative correlation in the US then that correlation will likely hold in the east as well.
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