Was the Buddha an Atheist?

Answer 1

He never gave any idea of it. So he may or may not have been an Atheist. He didn't want to upset and part of his followers so he never said anything.

Answer 2

Buddha and Buddhists don't really fit into the 'us and them' picture that Christians (and other religions) paint. They're not really atheists but they don't really believe in a specific sentient 'God' the way Christians or Muslims do.

Its a spiritual way of thinking more than the worship of a particular God. Though at the same time there is an idea of a force beyond the comprehesion of us humans and only the word 'God' fits well enough to help us Westerners figure out what the hell they are talking about.

Answer 3

the answer is NOT Buddha was not an atheist i say this because the philosophy of the the Buddhist religion is that every human can become a god . according to them this can be accomplished by coming back several times by being reincarnated until we finally learn all we have to learn and then we become gods . so the meaning of all this is that yes Buddha believed in god but he also happen to believe he was god or one of the many gods there is according to him .

although Buddha also believed that there was not a GOD who had created every single thing there is , but that we all are gods so therefor he did not believe in God the same way than Christians do . he also believed that he would comeback and reincarnate many more times and the same is believe today by all who fallow his teaching and the teachings of the Dalai Lama the reincarnation of Buddha according to all the Buddhist around the world .

Answer 4

A buddhist is technically atheist because the buddha never taught of any creator god. the only branch of buddhism that is not atheist is thervada buddhism, which views him (the Buddha) as god and i believe that "God" would be an atheist because they have no higher being to believe in

Answer 5

Atheism is form of belief, substitute of religion which placing meaning of God onto person, leaders, governments and their idols ideologies...Buddha did not create ideology to follow, he stated simple Truth in form of current ability to comprehend it and was a living embodiment of that Truth for those doubtful. It is people which created so-called Buddhism later attempted to place meaning of God onto Him, which might be considered as another form of atheism. By the way Christianity with full effort doing the same with Jesus.

Answer 6

Buddha was unlike almost everyone else who has ever walked the Earth because he knew EXACTLY what he wanted to be.

He wanted to be a living extension of God's Love, and so the Christ energy of divine Love (Jesus by manifested name) filled him to the brim and caused his name and heart to be remembered to this day.

Unfortunately, Christians don't invite Love (the Christ energy) into their souls and hearts as much as they invite the concept of a physical Jesus and exclusionism into their minds.

Forgive them for they know not what they do.

And no, I'm NOT a Buddhist.

:-)

Answer 7

The teaching of Budhist,even Sidharta Gautama (Budha) himself was mainly influenced by the Hinduism teaching.Hinduism is known as not an atheist teaching.The environment when Budhism first grew is the Hinduism.

Answer 8

I see the Buddha as a mirror...........with a voice that questions.....

(in this case)........are YOU an atheist?


http://sannyas.org/quotes/easy_ii.htm

Answer 9

To ask the question is to go down the wrong path. It is akin to demanding to know -- if one has been shot by an arrow -- who shot the arrow, where was the arrow made, who fletched it, and how far did it go before it hit home, before allowing it to be removed.

Answer 10

Was the Christ a God?