AgnosticWeb.com
Log in
Register
Search:
Back to the entry by xeno6696
Post reply
Reply to the message by
xeno6696
Name:
E-mail:
(optional, won't be displayed directly)
Leave this field empty:
Homepage:
(optional)
Leave this field empty:
Location:
(optional)
Remember me (cookie)
Category:
Introduction
The atheist delusion
Agnosticism
Evolution
The limitations of science
Origins
The nature of a 'Creator'
Where is it now?
Endings
Identity
Animals
Humans
Religion
Art
Politics
What should be taught in schools?
A mad world
General
Subject:
Formatting help
skip to input
format text bold
[b]bold text[/b]
format text italic
[i]italic text[/i]
insert hyperlink
[link=http://example.com/]link text[/link] / [link]http://example.com/[/link]
set text color
[color=#rgb]colored text[/color]
font size
[size=small]small text[/size]
[size=large]large text[/size]
insert list
[list][*]list item[/list]
insert image
[img]http://example.com/image.jpg[/img]
left: [img=left]http://example.com/image.jpg[/img]
right: [img=right]http://example.com/image.jpg[/img]
thumbnail: [img=thumbnail]http://example.com/image.jpg[/img]
thumbnail left: [img=thumbnail-left]http://example.com/image.jpg[/img]
thumbnail right: [img=thumbnail-right]http://example.com/image.jpg[/img]
:-)
;-)
:-P
:-D
:-|
:-(
Message:
> I sometimes put on one of the teachers in my school of Buddhism to explain various texts and whatnot, and I got hit with something upside the head to day. > > > Ajahn Brahm was a former oxford-trained physicist who left a career in physics to become a monk. His story is intriguing by itself, but it adds weight to the description I heard today. The best way to describe his importance would be akin to a Cardinal of Australia. > > He referred to the Abrahamic religions as [i]materialist [/i]religions. It appears that Buddhism uses a slightly different definition for materialism than what I'm used to, but for sure, he was clear that any religion that believes in a single creation event is by definition materialist. > > I mean I get it, Hinduism and Buddhism both have components of eternalism (just not of the self in one case.) > > This reminds me quite a bit about how Nietzsche criticized Christianity as being nihilistic.
OK - Submit
Preview