more creationist twaddle for Joseph Crea

Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 05:53:25 +0000 (00923396005, 19990406055325.BAOC27668@LOCALNAME) 

Hello again, Derek et al!

At 05:12 AM 4/6/99 +0000, Joseph Crea wrote:

>Hello, Derek!

>

>At 07:16 PM 4/5/99 -0400, Derek Pomery wrote:

>--snip--

>

>>> >FOREVERLIVE(?)

>>> >In other words, "be your own god", right? I thought "god" didn't exist?

>>> >

>>> Ed

>>> 

>>> Let me get this right:  You actually thought that Buddhists don't believe

>>> in a god??????

>>

>>DEREK

>>Buddhism is such a slippery term.  You cannot be a Christian without

>>believing in a god, but you can be a Buddhist Christian (spoke with one

>>once) or a Buddhist Atheist. (it's a category on the online atheist

>>registration list)  Again, those Buddhists on the list please clarify,

>>because I would very much like more precise information on this.

>

>

>CREA

>    As I may have mentioned before, Buddhism sees not need to postulate the

>existence of a Deity who Creates/Sustains the multiverse.  In this sense

>Buddhism is athestic.  However, Buddhism does acknowledge that there are

>entities which are much more powerful that humanity and which may occur both

>extra-terrstrially as well as extra-dimensionally, impinging on our mundane

>phenonmenal universe from time to time.  HOIWEIt was a common thing of that

>day, 

>>>and even our day, as I already used in the hospital example, of using the 

>>>word "dead" or "killed" to mean "mortally wounded."  HOWEVER, they are NOT

>omnipotent, omniscient or immortal, and as such are as deeply "embedded" in

>their own gesalt of unsatisfactory phenomenality as we humans are, and thus

>are equally in need of liberation/moksha/nirvana.  Hope this helps somewhat.


CREA
   Of course, that SHOULD read:


>    As I may have mentioned before, Buddhism sees not need to postulate the

>existence of a Deity who Creates/Sustains the multiverse.  In this sense

>Buddhism is athestic.  However, Buddhism does acknowledge that there are

>entities which are much more powerful that humanity and which may occur both

>extra-terrstrially as well as extra-dimensionally, impinging on our mundane

>phenonmenal universe from time to time.  HOWEVER, they are NOT omnipotent,

>omniscient or immortal, and as such are as deeply "embedded" in their own

>gesalt of unsatisfactory phenomenality as we humans are, and thus are

equally >in need of liberation/moksha/nirvana.  Hope this helps somewhat.