>On May 11, 4:15 pm, Free Lunch wrote:

>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:10:11 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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>> yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>On May 11, 4:07 pm, Free Lunch wrote:

>>>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 13:54:34 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus

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>>>> yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>>>On May 11, 3:44 pm, Free Lunch wrote:

>>>>>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 13:28:53 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus

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>>>>>> yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>>>>>1.  Christianity:

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>>>>>>>"We offer a personal relationship with God."

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>>>>>>>2.  Islam:

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>>>>>>>"There is no God but Allah, the all-powerful, the all-merciful, whom
>>>>>>>we all worship."

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>>>>>>>3.  Judaism:

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>>>>>>>"We are God's Chosen People."

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>>>>>>>4.  Hinduism:

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>>>>>>>"There are many paths to truth, but some are more direct than others."

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>>>>>>>5.  Buddhism:

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>>>>>>>"We can transform life's suffering to the peace of Nirvana."

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>>>>>>>6.  Confucianism:

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>>>>>>>"Family and tradition are the basis of a good life, and we are all
>>>>>>>children of the Emperor."

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>>>>>>>7.  Atheism:

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>>>>>>>"All religion is superstition, we must seek truth through scientific
>>>>>>>humanism."

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>>>>>> The first six were somewhere in the ballpark of correct. The last one is
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>>>>>Splendid.  YOU define Atheism, Mr. Atheist.

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>>>Confucianism is Atheistic but is classified as a religion.  Buddhism
>>>is, arguably, atheistic as well, although somewhat more ambiguously.
>>>It is certainly not theistic in emphasis or in practice.

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>> There are some superstitious elements to Confucianism and Buddhism that
>> would generally be rejected by those who consider themselves to be
>> atheists, but there are also atheists at Universalist or Unitarian
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>Let's clarify what exactly you mean by "superstition". This term
>seems to be regularly used by the so-called "atheists" in the U.S.,
>who I am really referring to here. Frankly, I haven't the slightest
>idea what these so-called "atheists" mean by "superstition", but they
>claim that they reject all "superstition".