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On 22 Mar 2001, at 14:36, Vincent Campbell wrote:
Some Jews chant with a box containing written parchment bound
to their heads; some Buddhists chant to a box containing a written
parchment.
>
> I don't know what happened to them, but in the 1980s there was an
> atheist choir in the UK. I don't know what kind of songs they
> sang....
>
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> > From: Wade T.Smith
> > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:57 pm
> > To: Memetics Discussion List
> > Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme
> >
> > Hi Vincent Campbell -
> >
> > >Isn't Bhudda [sic] an idol as in any other faith?
> >
> > Buddhism does seem to have an unlimited amount of physical
> > accoutrements required for its practice. More so than xianity? Yeah,
> > I think so, although high catholicism comes close in its collection
> > of crosses and jewelry and robes of offialdom.
> >
> > Having a statue of a buddha, and having a cross, do seem to be
> > related, at least in the outward revelation of one's faith.
> >
> > Can one be a buddhist without a belly to rub? Sure.
> >
> > Can one be a xian without rosary beads? Sure.
> >
> > I suppose atheists might have something to look at, sometimes, but I
> > don't know what that would be.
> >
> > If an indicator of a faith is its use of iconography, buddhism wins.
> >
> > - Wade
> >
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