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Originally Posted by Raghnar -ITA-
buddhist are atheist (or agnostics, depending on the type) from that point of view.
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This is true, In fact, our local Buddhist community couldn't get government funding as a religious organization because according to the laws a religion is a group that believes in a god on one form or another.
I'm a little bit of a fan of Buddhist thinking and were it not for the fact that they believe in reincarnation and the idea that all life is "suffering" (and I know it's a lot more complicated then that but that is the general idea) then I would probably be a Buddhist.
However. I'm an atheist. I believe that Faith is trust without evidence and I believe that human emotions like seeing the sunset, going Wow at wild animals and or even being completely terrified are all just chemical changes in the brain that are responding to external stimuli. There is nothing more too it then that.
I believe that supernatural things that happen like ghosts etc, are either just people imagining things, or those that have more evidence that that, I think there probably is something going on there but if we had the technology to examine it (which I believe we will have eventuality) then it would have a perfectly rational scientific explanation.
There is no god. Don't fool yourself into thinking there is. Yes I am a recruiting atheist. I make no apologies for this.