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Quick intro
January 25, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Hi! I come to this forum as a buddhist. Buddhism is an atheistic religion. I use meditation and yoga for personal growth and health. The buddhist teachings (Dharma) are "enlightening" and philososphically inspiring to me. I am adamently against Christianity, which I believe is a complete spiritual fraud in every way. I believe in science and evolution. I have acquired a bachelor's degree in history (which revealed to me alot of unsavory Christian truth) and I am an American. I grew up Roman Catholic, moderate church going and such, but finally renounced Christ when I watched Zeitgeist "The Greatest Story Ever Told" on Youtube. ( Great film series, if you haven't seen it, you must! It's brilliant and very controversial) So I hope I can share some ideas with you. AUM!
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RE: Quick intro
January 26, 2012 at 5:37 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2012 at 5:42 am by Nebuloso.)
In my eyes, Buddhism is the only tolerable religion. I have studied it quite a bit but I am by no means an expert on the subject. I know many atheist will disagree with me but other than the fact that they believe in reincarnation, which is where they lost my vote 10 years ago when I was considering it, it is a very rational and logical religion that encourages and promotes free thinking. I think many atheists are too quick to lump Buddhism in with Abrahamic religions like Islam and Christianity so I am glad to see you here.
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RE: Quick intro
January 26, 2012 at 6:12 am
Hullo Buddhist, welcome to the forums.
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RE: Quick intro
January 26, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Welcome. I admit I really don't know a great deal about Buddhism but for an atheistic religion I'm sure it's OK. I just don't get into all the spiritual stuff.
I disagree that it's the only tolerable religion. Universal Unitarians accept everyone's right to believe what they want. If there was a Unitarian church anywhere near here I'd like to go to see what it's like. They even have atheists as church leaders.
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