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To: HiTech RedNeck

I understand the quest for a lack of want, but Buddhism is generally viewed as a philosophy rather than a religion. Siddhartha didn’t seem much influenced by the countless gods of Hindus.


6 posted on 08/09/2016 5:57:44 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

He had to embrace a dogma of a higher supernatural power to make his philosophy go, however. So it is yet a religion but not with the kind of god or deity that Westerners generally understand to be one.


7 posted on 08/09/2016 6:02:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: kearnyirish2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahm%C4%81_(Buddhism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman

Notice the commonality, though the stories are not the same.


8 posted on 08/09/2016 6:05:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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