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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Science and Aesthetics
Message-ID: <151@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Keywords: elegance beauty truth

In article <2734@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
> [...]  There were a small but very vocal number of people who were
>convinced that Buddhism (any sort) was a religion, and required a
>belief in a deity, and therefore was a superstition, [...]

I wonder what they thought the deity was.  Presumably not the Buddha.

By the way, there even seem to be interpretations of Christianity that
do not involve belief in a deity in the usual sense: e.g., where "God"
means the object of "ultimate concern".