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Originally posted by BBtB
So you believe that Buddhism is NOT a religion? Just trying to calrify.
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I did not say that. I said that <u>atheism</u> is not a religion.
dictionary.com:
<b>a·the·ism</b>
- Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
- The doctrine that there is no God or gods.
- Godlessness; immorality.
(Note: I specifically added that last one, because of the - to me - wrong notion that atheism = immorality. Bullocks.)
Religions do not necessarily have anything to do with a god, as Buddhism shows. I'm an atheist because I do not believe in a god, which apparently means I can be a Buddhist. However, I am not.
Again, atheism is NOT a religion. It means a-theism, as in non-theism, meaning "do not believe in a god". Nothing more, nothing less.
In my case, one could say that I am an atheist, with a large amount of down-to-earth humanism thrown in for that morality thing, combined with a "belief" in modern science. (Note: do not make the mistake of comparing this belief in science with a belief in the religious sense of the word. Science doesn't work that way.)