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- From: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Buddhism - A religion of atheists?
- Message-ID: <C1J4As.2sp@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:16:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.013458.1092@nuscc.nus.sg> <1993Jan26.163039.19486@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.163039.19486@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
- jcopelan@nyx.cs.du.edu (The One and Only) writes:
- |> 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.
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- One book I read (I think it was "Three Pillars of Zen") talked
- about this and said that the religion part comes from faith. With
- Zen Buddhism the faith comes in the form of the concept of
- enlightenment and what needs to be done in order to acheive it.
-
- Joel Stave
- stave@apollo.hp.com
-