RE: [Pen-l] Religious atheism [was: Charter schools

["Carl Dassbach" <dassbach@xxxxxxx>]

Huh??? Atheism and Buddhism are totally disconnected/unrelated concepts.
Calling a Buddhist an atheist is not only conceptually inappropriate it is
crass ethnocentrism.

Buddha has become a deity but this is a perversion of Buddhism resulting
from it systemization/institutionalization. Nor was Buddha part of the Hindu
pantheon.  Instead, Buddhism represents a "solution" - based on the Four
Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path - to the "problem" of samsara - the
endless cycle of death, birth and rebirth -  posited by Hinduism.  In its
original form, it has absolutely nothing to do with deities or pantheons.
It rejects all these because these are forms of attachment and attachment
causes suffering.

CHAD

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Religious atheism [was: Charter schools

Shane Mage wrote:
>> Why not call yourself a Buddhist? That's what "religious atheists" are!!

Not all Buddhists are atheists, since Buddhism seems to mix well with
most deist religions. (I've heard that the original Buddha is part of
the Hindu pantheon.) Pure Buddhism, of course, does not seem to
require any god or gods.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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