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From: crm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Salvation
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Date: 19 Mar 90 14:35:49 GMT
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In article <14550@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> palmer@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Grant E. Palmer) writes:
>
> My question is do the Eastern religions have a similar belief.  Do Buddhists
> think "If you don't accept Buddha, you are damned"?.  
In a word, no.  In more words, no, because the old guy from the Shakya
tribe wasn't even all that big on reincarnation; the traditional answer
to "are we reincarnated" was another question "is it the same flame or a
new one?"  

What Buddhists *do* think (often) is that it's kind of too bad if you
don't run into Buddhism because it's a shame to waste time being so
unhappy.

>What do followers of
> the Eastern religions think of this Christian dogma?  It always strikes me
> as kind of snotty.


I'm with you.  If there is a ghod, it strikes me he'd be generally nicer
than that.


Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm)