Re: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 22:00:49 BST

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    Chuck,

    > Scott, I know there's something here, but I can't wrap my head around
    > it. Mind expounding on the differences between "Buddhist Atheism" and
    > everyday Atheism?

    A typical Buddhist believes in reincarnation and karma, that is, that one's
    current life is affected by actions in previous lives, and affects future
    lives. But they have no concept of God the way the Judeo-Christian-Muslim
    has. The secular atheist, on the other hand, considers all of that
    (reincarnation etc.) to be nonsense, that death is oblivion.

    >
    > The problem I'm having is that you you seem to be qualifying "Buddhist
    > Atheism" as a sort of theism, which if my understanding is correct, it
    > isn't.

    Correct, it isn't. I'm not sure where you get the idea that I am qualifying
    Buddhist atheism as a sort of theism. I have not gone into all the ins and
    outs of what I find of value in Christianity and in Buddhism, though, and
    don't intend to. But as to the theism/atheism question, I reject the
    secular atheist belief that all religion is hooey, while I consider the
    question of what sort of reality lies behind the physical to be
    unanswerable, or at least not to be captured with the word 'theist' or with
    the word 'atheist'.

    - Scott

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