{"id":1995,"date":"2006-11-26T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2006\/11\/humanism-buddhism-lite-uu-buddhism\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:52","slug":"humanism-buddhism-lite-uu-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2006\/11\/humanism-buddhism-lite-uu-buddhism.html","title":{"rendered":"Humanism, Buddhism Lite &amp; UU Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/peacebang.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peacebang\u2019s<\/a> wonderful blog there\u2019s a thread on humanism, buddhism-lite &amp; UU Buddhism. I couldn\u2019t help but contribute to the confusion\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The specifics are found at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peacebang.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/humanists-or-vague-buddhists.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/peacebang.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/humanists-or-vague-buddhists.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and continued at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peacebang.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/humanism-or-vague-buddhism-part-ii_10.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/peacebang.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/humanism-or-vague-buddhism-part-ii_10.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where I added some thoughts\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-116457968908424285?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Peacebang\u2019s wonderful blog there\u2019s a thread on humanism, buddhism-lite &amp; UU Buddhism. 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