This is one of the things that annoys me about the nonsensities (or dishonesty) of many atheists. Yes, it is true that Buddhism does not particularly concern itself with the question of "God". Neither do I. But to equate it with atheism is very misleading. Atheism tends to be anti-God. Not so with Buddhism. Atheists tend to be materialistic. Not so with Buddhists. A Buddhist himself put it best when he said:
"It began as a non-theistic religion, but it most certainly teaches the existence of a transcendant truth valid for all people at all times in all places and one that is not accessible empirically.
Atheism begins with the view that there is no transcendant truth available to man relative to human affairs because there is no transcendant being and that the only certain truth available to man is what he can reduce to mathematical symbol or reducible to countable matter."
2007-10-29
03:48:13
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