"When Buddhist modernists say that Buddhism isn’t a religion and try to use science to justify Buddhism, that’s an instance of misunderstanding what religion is and what science is." @evantthompsonhttps://buff.ly/38Xyr2o
Normative: one should dis-identify with everything making up the body and mind and treat it all as not-self. The normative aspect is ethical/religious/soteriological, not scientific [2]
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Also, the Buddha insisted on both anatman and karma. Karma isn’t compatible with science. If we drop karma and just have anatman, that’s much closer to materialism than Buddhism [3]
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So your statement is like saying that when scientists say the universe is law-governed and intelligible in the language of mathematics, isn’t it OK to say this is compatible with the Christian vision of the cosmos? Yes, but that’s to overlook the other incompatibilities [4]
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