Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Poly- and Mono- Theism: both incompatible with eclecticism Message-ID: <904@utastro.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 23:54:39 EST Article-I.D.: utastro.904 Posted: Tue Dec 11 23:54:39 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 08:36:57 EST References: <1773@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 14 >Buddhism, I might point out, is at base atheistic; the "Gods" are >representations of priniciples, and are not considered real. My reading of Buddhism is that it takes an agnostic position towards the existence of God(s). This was one of the questions that the Buddha refused to answer on the grounds that it did "not lead to enlightenment". -- "When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve" Bill Jefferys 8-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)