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Saturday, August 23, 2014
Eastern Religious Traditions and the Supernatural
Eastern religions don't seem to draw the nature-supernature distinction. On the other hand, they hold positions like reincarnation, which seem impossible if the natural world, as presently understood by science, is all there is.
Since 'supernatural' has come, in this ignorant and jaded age, to mean not much more than "things that go bump in the night" or "things I consider spooky or weird", perhaps we Westerners ought to drop that particular distinction and look to the one that matters: that between Creator/non-contingent being and Creature/contingent being.
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Since 'supernatural' has come, in this ignorant and jaded age, to mean not much more than "things that go bump in the night" or "things I consider spooky or weird", perhaps we Westerners ought to drop that particular distinction and look to the one that matters: that between Creator/non-contingent being and Creature/contingent being.
I use the words supernatural and non-material pretty much interchangeably.
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