Psyllotripitaka says
You are free to speak as you will, and considering the circumstances I understand how the actions of others can bend us out of shape,
Actions of others never bend one out of shape. What bends one out of shape, from an ethical viewpoint, are only one's own unskilful minds, such as one's own hypocrisy (concealment), lack of compassion, and lack of self-respect (sense of shame).
For instance, one shows hypocrisy, lack of self-respect, and lack of compassion, when, out of subservience to common opinion, of religious preconceptions, or even of self-identification with evil, one calls “holy” that which even oneself recognize as evil, thus endorsing, supporting, and sanctifying such evil.
This is the non-Buddhistic, Abrahamic (Jewish, Christian and Islamic) way. No matter how evil, envious, bloodthirsty, and callous their “god“ may be (according to their own scriptures), and no matter how much the victims of their “god” (or of the belief in such a “god”) may suffer, they (the Abrahamic followers) still call it “good”, and venerate it, just because it is “their god” -- and, not satisfied with that, self-righteously try to enforce this veneration on others, calling them “blasphemous”, killing them, and so forth.
Now, in a similar way, and no matter how perverse, envious, deceitful, and callous the evil dalai may be (to the point that even you agree that he deserves compassion), you have rather self-righteously reacted, ruffling your feathers just because someone called the “dalai” by his suitable epithet, that is, “evil“ -- defined as “that which brings suffering to sentient beings” --, and even want to enforce veneration of your “holy” entity on others, thus following the non-Buddhistic, Abrahamic violent pattern.
Even if the evil dalai does not bring suffering to you personally (as he does not bring to me), he still brings suffering to many others who are under his power. Therefore, calling “holy“ the evil being who brings so much suffering to others, thus endorsing, supporting, and sanctifying his violence, and, what is worse, attempting at enforcing such debased veneration on others, is tantamount to a gruesome show of lack of compassion and connivance with violence -- besides the cheap, hypocritical exercise of
lojong with the suffering of others.
Therefore, may I politely suggest that, rather than pompously setting dubious rules for others, you keep venerating as “holy” your evil entity as much as you want, and take care first and foremost of your own mind and motivations.
