i.e buddisim
2006-12-16 09:17:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Non-theistic
See for example source below on Buddhism
2006-12-16 09:21:59 · answer #1 · answered by philjtoh 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientology
The religious movement known as Scientology originated in the United States with the 1950 publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The book's author, L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), was a popular science fiction writer who envisioned Dianetics as an alternative to traditional therapy. Like other human potential systems, Dianetics promised its followers both enhanced survival mechanisms and new modes of self-expression. Drawing heavily on modern psychology, Hubbard claimed that detailed memory records of past traumatic experiences, called Engrams, are the cause of irrational and aberrant behavior. Subjects could uncover and eliminate their Engrams to become Clear through a process of Auditing, overseen by a practitioner of Dianetics using a device called an E-meter.
The more explicitly religious dimensions of Scientology evolved from Dianetic theory, as Hubbard and his followers began to make wider claims about the nature and meaning of human life. Hubbard posited that in addition to a body and a mind, each person is also an immortal spiritual entity called a Thetan, which spans lifetimes and has the power to create the basic elements of existence: matter, energy, space, and time. With the help of Scientology, church members move along a path to spiritual enlightenment known as the Bridge to Total Freedom. The aim of this spiritual pilgrimage is to attain higher states of consciousness, marked by successive levels of Operating Thetan status.
Since its founding in Los Angeles in 1954, the Church of Scientology has grown steadily, enjoying a high profile due to its appeal among well-known entertainers. Membership estimates range from fifty thousand to several million. The church operates in more than one hundred countries and maintains an elaborate and well-funded network of institutions dedicated to promoting religious practice, the training of practitioners, and moral and political reform. Scientology has tirelessly sought legal status as a religion and has consistently assumed an aggressive posture toward its critics.
2006-12-16 11:28:36 · answer #2 · answered by Lion Head 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism
2006-12-16 09:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheist
2006-12-16 11:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by dimple555 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheist
2006-12-16 09:34:05 · answer #5 · answered by Kat0312 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate
2006-12-16 09:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by lizarddd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is the word for a mindset which does not allow for the existence of a god.
2006-12-19 06:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buddha is a God Buddhist praise. Atheist is the word for people who don't believe in a God. I think!
Krazy Libra
2006-12-16 09:19:27 · answer #8 · answered by krazy_libra_from_ac 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheism.
2006-12-16 09:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A religion doesn't have to have a god, does it? is that what it says in the dictionary? i can't be bothered to check. anyway, to that previous answer, Buddha was not a god, technically a buddha it can be anyone who has become enlightened
2006-12-16 09:29:51 · answer #10 · answered by fishfinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋