[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:32:11 -0500
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:
: It's 1:30 and I'm way too tired to read this thread carefully...I've only
: skimmed the fairly complex posts....but you guys are teetering dangerously on
:
: the edge of the question of original sin. Christianity teaches it, Judaism
: refutes it. I don't know about other systems of theology -- like Buddhism -
: - I
: would be interested in the Buddhist take on it.
As far as I know there is no Buddhist take on original sin. I don't
think that there is any Buddhist term that corresponds closely to
sin and, more importantly, it is a basic teaching that nothing is
original, that everything arises because of previous causes and
conditions, including those causes and conditions.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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