Subject: | Re: 77% of Americans believe a virgin can give birth
| Date: | Tue, 21 Oct 2003 02:28:58 GMT
| From: | Kenneth Doyle <nobody@notmail.com>
| Newsgroups: | soc.culture.indian,alt.bonehead.jai-maharaj,alt.atheism,misc.writing.screenplays,soc.culture.usa
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Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in
news:6649pvsvp3tlidsi1b229hvsdl2phitkbv@Pern.rk:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:33:50 GMT, Snoopy <snoopy@charlie.brown's>
> posted in alt.atheism:
>
>>There is a concept among certain Hindus that comes closest, in my
>>opinion, to explaining the force of the universe. Loosely put, it says
>>that everything that exists in totality *is* God, good and evil, matter
>>and anti-matter, animate and inanimate.
>
> That would be a theistic viewpoint. As nmstevens said, lacking belief
> in any god is atheism; all others are theists.
Doesn't it only become a theistic viewpoint, if one asserts that this
totality is a conscious being (as opposed to something like Jung's
synchronicity)? I was always unclear on this point.
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