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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (4719)12/12/2000 11:13:38 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
I have a couple of responses to make to this article.

First, it does support what I was attempting to get across earlier today vis-a-vis Buddhism as a religion. Clearly in terms of ritual, dogma, and mythological bases, it is. To participate in it on the same level as this writer was is to be participating in a religion: all the forms are there.

Second, enantiodromatic conversions from one set of religious beliefs to another are ultimately poor validations of the superiority of any one religion to another. Firstly, because they are fairly commonplace in every conceivable direction--christian to buddhist, christian to muslim, atheistic to christian and vice versa...every possible flavor and combination is available to point to as testimony for any of them. Secondly, they are entirely personal decisions, made for entirely personal and subjective reasons...and so of course they must be valid for the person making them. That doesn't make them universally valid.
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