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- From: jcopelan@nyx.cs.du.edu (The One and Only)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Buddhism - A religion of atheists?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.163039.19486@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:30:39 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.013458.1092@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- In article <1993Jan26.013458.1092@nuscc.nus.sg> cmtan@iss.nus.sg (Tan Chade Meng - with Dan) writes:
- >
- >Notice that Spiritual development (instead of Faith) is strongly
- >emphasized in Buddhism and NOWHERE in its Central Doctrine was the word
- >"God" even mentioned. Buddhism is probably the only religion in the
- >world where the believe in God is not encouraged. It is also probably
- >the only religion where followers are encouraged to scrutinize its
- >teachings and blind faith is frowned upon. Hence, it was able to avoid
- >the dogmatism, Holy Wars and other evils that plagued all other
- >religions. It is one of very few religions with no conflicts with
- >Science, even though it is much older than Christianity and Islam.
- >Indeed, Buddhism has more *positive* impact on modern psychology, for
- >example, than any religion has on any field of science.
-
- Why then, is Buddhism considered a religion as opposed to a philosophy or
- way of life? Religion usually involves God and/or the supernatural. In
- this case, one could be a Christian-Buddhist as easily as another could be
- an Atheist-Buddhist. So calling it the "religion" of Atheists seems
- unwarranted, almost like calling Atheism itself a religion.
-
- JC
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