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Statements about the nature of reality arrived at through a mystical methodology conflict with scientific materialism even if no god is involved.
by jacoblyles 16y ago
Statements about the nature of reality arrived at through a mystical methodology conflict with scientific materialism even if no god is involved.
- chc 16y agoPerhaps so, but neither atheism nor agnosticism is equivalent to scientific materialism.
- jacoblyles 16y agoNo, but I'd be willing to bet that a large portion of the atheists here are atheists because of such a viewpoint.
- philwelch 16y agoPrecisely. I don't care two shits whether God exists or not, frankly--that's not the interesting question. And "scientific materialism" is a bad way to cast it--materialism is a metaphysical system while science is an epistemic system. I'm nonreligious because I don't believe claims without a good argument behind them. Buddhism is a set of claims without any good arguments just the same as Christianity, whether or not those claims are about gods and resurrected demigods or not.
- chc 16y agoI agree that's probably true, but I don't understand your point. I was just observing that Buddhists are likely to also be atheists, since the OP seemed to consider overlap unlikely.