Re: Selling Points of the Major Religions

On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:28:50 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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>On May 11, 4:15 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:10:11 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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>> >On May 11, 4:07 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> On Sun, 11 May 2008 13:54:34 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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>> >> >On May 11, 3:44 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >> On Sun, 11 May 2008 13:28:53 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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>> >> >> >1.  Christianity:
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>> >> >> >"We offer a personal relation****p with God."
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>> >> >> >2.  Islam:
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>> >> >> >"There is no God but Allah, the all-powerful, the all-merciful,
whom
>> >> >> >we all wor****p."
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>> >> >> >3.  Judaism:
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>> >> >> >"We are God's Chosen People."
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>> >> >> >4.  Hinduism:
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>> >> >> >"There are many paths to truth, but some are more direct than
others."
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>> >> >> >5.  Buddhism:
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>> >> >> >"We can transform life's suffering to the peace of Nirvana."
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>> >> >> >6.  Con****ianism:
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>> >> >> >"Family and tradition are the basis of a good life, and we are
all
>> >> >> >children of the Emperor."
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>> >> >> >7.  Atheism:
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>> >> >> >"All religion is superstition, we must seek truth through
scientific
>> >> >> >humanism."
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>> >> >> The first six were somewhere in the ballpark of correct. The last
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>> >> >Splendid.  YOU define Atheism, Mr. Atheist.
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>> >Con****ianism is Atheistic but is classified as a religion.  Buddhism
>> >is, arguably, atheistic as well, although somewhat more ambiguously.
>> >It is certainly not theistic in emphasis or in practice.
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>> There are some superstitious elements to Con****ianism and Buddhism that
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>Let's clarify what exactly you mean by "superstition".  This term
>seems to be regularly used by the so-called "atheists" in the U.S.,
>who I am really referring to here.  Frankly, I haven't the slightest
>idea what these so-called "atheists" mean by "superstition", but they
>claim that they reject all "superstition".

Claims about the supernatural which are unsup****ted by any evidence. It
includes belief in gods, spirit ancestors, souls, etc.