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

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Shane Mage wrote:

> A-THEISM:  the "a," expressing negation,="without." "theos"="God."   
> Atheism literally means "without [a] God."  Because the "world" is  
> "everything that is the case" there can be no "stance" that is   
> "outside the world." The assertion of something "outside the world"  
> is precisely the dominant "illusion of life." To it people have the  
> *strongest* attachment, *religious* attachment.  By showing that   
> "God" is not the case, Buddhism is antidote to that illusion.

Doyle;
Atheism as socialist have meant the word is a 'materialism'.  As Ravi  
points out about Heidegger the sense of nothing but material being is  
atheism.  Hence the point of Nothingness to Heidegger.
Doyle
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