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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Ok, truce?
- Message-ID: <75843@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:10:49 GMT
- References: <910773f.43.724643257@axe.acadiau.ca> <1992Dec21.051029.12270@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Dec21.051029.12270@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes:
- >
- >One viewpoint is the "perennial philosophy", i.e. that there is one
- >primordial Truth which every religion contains. The deeper one
- >understands each religion, the more one sees the similarities in the
- >essences of each religion.
- >
- >I don't know too much about this philosophy yet, however I plan to
- >educate myself about as much as possible about this soon.
-
- I'm familiar with this hypothesis, but consider it weak. I have
- yet to see a strong defense of it, and my (admittedly not
- exhaustive) education in comparative religion and mythography
- have rendered me suspicious of it. In fact, so different are
- shamanism, Buddhism, and Christianity (for example), that, in my
- opinion it is amazing that a single word, 'religion', is used to
- describe them all.
-