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To: Agamemnon

You don't have to believe in reincarnation to follow the Dharma, and I don't. That would take faith I don't have.
Buddhism is not as exclusive as Christianity in that way.

I am a Gnostic. I believe that I have an immortal soul and that God exists because it was revealed to me as such. I don't take any man's word for what happens in the afterlife.

Conservatism is based on logic, not on creation. Logic lead me to conservatism. I'm sorry, but since the conservative philosophy is inherently logical, you might have people who don't follow your particular religion on the same political side as you, distateful though it may be for you.

ToE has nothing, absolutely nothing at all to do with the state of my soul. You are confusing matter with the spirit.


309 posted on 06/11/2006 5:45:20 PM PDT by stands2reason (You cannot bully or insult conservatives into supporting your guy.)
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To: stands2reason
I am a Gnostic

And a Buddhist too? Seems that you've invented a kind of mix 'n' match religion for yourself. Still not anything upon which American Conservatism is based.

Conservatism is based on logic

Hitler's brand of conservatism was also based in what he considered to be "logic" too, but that brand of conservatism does not define American Conservatism.

American Conservatism is certainly logical, but it is so because it is based in Judeo-Christian ethic; and on that basis American Conservatism is the logical choice -- even for Gnosto-Buddhists like yourself.

You use it for what it is good for, and have chosen to do so in your own self-interest. That however does not define you as an American Conservative

310 posted on 06/11/2006 6:31:16 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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