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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Buddhism - A religion of atheists?
- Message-ID: <77695@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:49:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.013458.1092@nuscc.nus.sg> <gj156879.728056125@cunews>
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- In article <gj156879.728056125@cunews> gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879) writes:
- >Although my knowledge is sketchy on the matter, the Taoist philosophy
- >seems to be godless as well. (Sort of) From what little I've read,
- >they have "gods", but recognize them as an internal manifestation.
- >That is, they don't exist "out there", but exist inside you. The gods
- >are more label than substance. What do we call this hunk of our
- >personality? Let's call it Thor, or whatever...
-
- Well...The Taoist philosophy doesn't have any gods in it, although
- one can argue that the concept of an ineffable something that is
- the source of all existence and behaves according to such-and-such
- principles is similar to a god.
-
- Taoism as practiced religiously in China is more or less associated
- with the scads of Traditional gods and heroes of China. That is,
- Taoism per se does not teach of the existence of gods; practicing
- Taoists, on the other hand, typically honor or placate all sorts
- of gods and demons, and believe all sorts of scientifically implausible
- things about the world.
-