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  1. Buddha Dharma

    Why Arrogant "New Atheists" Annoy Me

    I suppose it is easy to play that off, unless something seems serious to one... Why do you suppose religions might imbue things with seriousness? Because some of the subjects they set out to treat are very serious.
  2. Buddha Dharma

    Why Arrogant "New Atheists" Annoy Me

    My biggest issue with the new atheists is the high level of philosophical illiteracy among them. They often don't understand the problems a philosopher might have with their underpinning everything they accept with pretty much nothing. They also don't tend to appreciate how serious things like...
  3. Buddha Dharma

    how many gods?

    As I understand it, some of the views in Hinduism about the gods 'springing from Brahman' could qualify as polytheistic. Do the Devas necessarily have to be synonymous with Brahman in total? In Advaita perhaps. How about Bhedabheda or Dvaita though? In Bhedabheda Vedanta (the one I'm currently...
  4. Buddha Dharma

    how many gods?

    How many gods? There could be hundreds of thousands. No reason to think the Cosmos isn't full of them, as earth is with all it's forms of life. I believe all the ones in world mythologies exist.
  5. Buddha Dharma

    Deep, Meaningful Three O'Clock in the Morning Question...

    I don't want to speak for @shunyadragon, but based on things I've seen him post- I'd say he's a philosopher. Philosophers don't find funny what other people do. We sometimes find funny what other people don't. (I just remembered you're a philosopher. How COULD YOU ask a question that merits a...
  6. Buddha Dharma

    Deep, Meaningful Three O'Clock in the Morning Question...

    I know right? I had to erase 3/4 of my reply. I was going to give an actual attempt at an answer.
  7. Buddha Dharma

    Deep, Meaningful Three O'Clock in the Morning Question...

    No I don't imagine he would.
  8. Buddha Dharma

    Omniscience is impossible.

    Omniscience does seem rather problematic and raises a lot of questions. One problem that a philosopher might raise against it is that knowledge is acquired by experience. If there is no transcendent nature to knowledge> then only through experience is it gotten. That would be very problematic...
  9. Buddha Dharma

    Priest refused to absolve me :-(

    Well it's only that I know the Anglican reason for not requiring absolution by a priest is because of acknowledgement that God actually forgives the sin. Rather you confess to a priest or not- and some Anglicans would choose to do so. I think Eastern Orthodox are also less stringent on when...
  10. Buddha Dharma

    Drug tests for food stamp recipients.

    Is the contention that people using drugs ought not eat? Ultimately, ought not live? Is that the right's point here?
  11. Buddha Dharma

    Priest refused to absolve me :-(

    Yes, I have a further point to make to the OP if he acknowledges this.
  12. Buddha Dharma

    Priest refused to absolve me :-(

    Well it has the lineage, so only Rome says so. What makes Rome an authority? Does Rome have the authority to tell the Eastern Church their lineage is invalid as well? Henry didn't found the Anglican Church as we have it today. Anglicanism as we have it today came about because Rome...
  13. Buddha Dharma

    Priest refused to absolve me :-(

    Yes, I'm aware that's how Christians historically interpreted that verse. A question: Is that Jesus putting the authority to forgive in the hands of men, or only the authority to declare forgiveness with God acting?
  14. Buddha Dharma

    Drug tests for food stamp recipients.

    Well and political moves like this set the middle class voters and poor against one another. As long as they fight one another- they'll never notice what the 1% are doing. The 1% keeps the pie except for one slice, which they toss to the poor and middle class and tell them to fight over it. I'm...
  15. Buddha Dharma

    The _______ Commandments

    Just another question for ya. Do you think we can know for certain how much the Jesus camp departed from the law? Because there were at least two Jewish groups known to scholars that followed Jesus and kept the law pretty strictly. The Ebionites and Nazarenes. Some things about the development...
  16. Buddha Dharma

    Louisiana Law To Ban Sex With Animals

    It's beastiality if it's any dem gays or lesbeens ;)
  17. Buddha Dharma

    Yggdrasil Tattoo (repost)

    It's a very nice and well done tattoo
  18. Buddha Dharma

    Priest refused to absolve me :-(

    You should just become an Anglican. That's my thoughts. Absolution isn't mandatory there.
  19. Buddha Dharma

    Comparative Religion Overload?

    Someone that follows the Vedantic school of Hinduism known as Advaita, which holds that there is no real difference between the Supreme Reality and Atman. Everything is Brahman at it's fundamental core and difference is only seeming. Not real. This is somewhat in contrast with Bhedabheda...
  20. Buddha Dharma

    Coming out as creationists: fear.

    I was looking at something earlier, where some young people stated they are very skeptical of evolution. Therefore, I have to say yes. There may even be a number among younger Americans that accept creationism as more likely. We should remember that the nones are spiritual- not necessarily...
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