If you can look past his belief in reincarnation, he is actually a part of a pragmatic and even science- and reality-based practice.
Here is a quotation from an interview of him as a part of a response to conflict in religion and the Israel-Palestine question:
[...] I'm Buddhist, I'm a Buddhist practitioner. So actually I think that according to nontheistic Buddhist belief, things are due to causes and conditions. No creator. So I have faith in our actions, not prayer. Action is important. Action is karma. Karma means action. That's an ancient Indian thought. In nontheistic religions, including Buddhism, the emphasis is on our actions rather than god or Buddha. So some people say that Buddhism is a kind of atheism. Some scholars say that Buddhism is not a religion — it's a science of the mind.
This is why Buddhism on a fundamental level is both compatible with other belief systems and also a great platform for illuminating the universality of much of human thought and spirituality/morality. When you look at the core of the Buddha's original teachings, you are looking at the essence of much of what we as humans struggle with and strive for. You will find much if not all of the same things packed into most world religions.
Christianity was not created in a vacuum, nor was Islam. The ideas of each are based on previous human thought and practices. It's like philosophy that way, where the predecessors influence the followers. However, sometimes the new ideas are deviations from the important ideas, and that's where many of us can get lost. Other times, there are new ideas that reinforce the important ideas and keep them accessible to future generations.
Many of these ideas don't change. It's the environment in which we apply them that changes, which keeps the challenge for all of us fresh and often rather pressing.