{"id":417,"date":"2011-05-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/justinvacula\/2011\/05\/09\/should-buddhism-be-considered-a-religion-essay\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:30:00","slug":"should-buddhism-be-considered-a-religion-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2011\/05\/09\/should-buddhism-be-considered-a-religion-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Buddhism be Considered a Religion? : Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/ciu\/79\/8c\/f78fb340dca00f63ab2a1010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m uploading yet another essay that I hope my readers will enjoy. I&#8217;ve very rarely mentioned Buddhism in previous posts, so this is something new for me to consider. I selected &#8220;Should Buddhism be Considered a Religion?&#8221; for my final Eastern Philosophy essay. I thought that Buddhism could be considered a philosophy and not a religion, but my ideas changed halfway through the paper thanks to the insight of Buddhist monks. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Toward the end of the paper, I came down quite hard on theology and the majority of religious persons, but I was sure not to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinvacula.com\/2010\/09\/painting-all-catholics-with-same-brush.html\">paint everyone with the same brush<\/a> that people often accuse me of painting with even though I make sure to add disclaimers and it&#8217;s obvious that I can&#8217;t take every individual into consideration. As always, feel free to comment about anything.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"View Should Buddhism be Considered a Religion? on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/55016661\/Should-Buddhism-be-Considered-a-Religion\">Should Buddhism be Considered a Religion?<\/a>                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m uploading yet another essay that I hope my readers will enjoy. I&#8217;ve very rarely mentioned Buddhism in previous posts, so this is something new for me to consider. I selected &#8220;Should Buddhism be Considered a Religion?&#8221; for my final Eastern Philosophy essay. I thought that Buddhism could be considered a philosophy and not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}