thread: 2005-06-06 : Happenings
On 2005-06-06, Brand Robins wrote:
Metallain: You said, "My wife was raised a Buddhist so I've been exposed to a fair bit of it and it does seem to be a different sort of animal."
Indeed it is. It comes from a whole different tradition than Western religions, and has a much different emphasis. However, so do large parts of Hinduism, and few have problems calling that a religion.
I think the problem is less a fundemental difference between religion and philosophy, and more a difficulty in getting past cultural assumptions about what "religion" means.
For example, if the focus of religion neccisarily means God or gods, then we're going to get into trouble all over the place.
