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• If the universe be regarded as self-existing, then men might hold to evolution, which is distinctly non-theistic, if not atheistic, not requiring a God for the reason that it is founded on the assumption that the possibility and potency and promise of all things reside in matter as matter.
• The most influential contemporary school of non-theistic philosophers, the school of Comte, deny that either theism or atheism can be proved, and proscribe, with impartial rigour, all argument on either side...
• But to determine the position and worth of a religion, whether theistic or non-theistic, it is indispensable that we have some notion of what religion is in itself.
• The nontheistic tradition of Buddhism generally takes the view that people (with each other's help) can liberate themselves.
• Thus what he called "natural religion" must not be confused with modern brands of naturalistic or nontheistic religion.