Reply #106: yeah we agree

[SteelPenguin]

I may have misposted in response to yours....I dunno. I haven't had all my coffee ration this morning...

I think, personally, that Buddhism while it doesn't have some monotheistic god telling everyone what to do, certainly encompasses belief in a different sense. Belief in reincarnation for instance alone, and other aspects of the cosmos...Call it whatever you will, but it goes beyond a lifestyle and becomes a system that requires belief in something with no evidence.

I'm a Unitarian Universalist, and I think alot of people are ignorant of what that means too. That while you can be a UU and believe in Jesus, or in Buddha even, most are more agnostic secular humanists, yet we still discuss our spirituality. At my church we talk about spirituality and the stories of Jesus or Buddha (though more often we don't talk about them at all) as things to learn from, stories that have meaning, rather than events that were true. Some people would, and do, call UU not a religion, but I do.... and honestly I think alot of athiests, or secular humanists, or agnostics, would get alot out of UU, if they just knew more about it.

Of course there are plenty of people who don't want anything like it and would rather be fishing on Sunday morning, and to them I say "can I come with you when the weather is really nice?"