2007-12-08 09:42:38 · 11 answers · asked by Buke 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Buddhism is an atheistic "religion", at it's core and at it's inception.
2007-12-08 09:44:46 · answer #1 · answered by The Instigator 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Buddha talks to and about the gods on many occasions in the texts. The idea of a creator god may be incompatible with Buddhism, but devas and beings like the Greek and Norse gods are not necessarily precluded.
So, yes the Buddha was an atheist with regard to a omnipotent creator god. But no the Buddha was not an across-the-board atheist.
2007-12-08 20:18:23 · answer #2 · answered by Sophrosyne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since Buddha is not a real person or a real god, he couldn't be anything but a lifeless statue somebody made to represent the god they wished to worship.
2007-12-08 18:11:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont see how Buddha is atheist...didnt he believe he was God? or something was God?. how then is reincarnation possible?...well i cant say i know much about Buddha...but to believe we are spiritual with the ability to keep coming back is to believe we are immortal. What do Buddhist say makes this possible?...uh, is that not God/s?
2007-12-08 17:51:56 · answer #4 · answered by iluvtaro 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
all gods known to the human race are human... I believe that Buddha was a kind and wise human... people are just as guilty of deifying other humans as the ones who go about deifying themselves... such as the pope... one without wisdom but with the audacity to seek to control the world through religious power... the pope works to control who would be deified, that's what the process of saint hood is about... seeking to force the world to value only his choices ... but notice only those who have followed the church's dogma are chosen to be seen as having value...
2007-12-08 17:49:29 · answer #5 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes , its the essence of Buddhism see feel explore everything yourself and come to an conclusion without influence or opinions from any one else. A free mind body and soul excellent!
2007-12-08 17:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Siddhartha Gautama didn't believe in God.
But he had extensive compassion for his fellow man.
2007-12-08 17:51:36 · answer #7 · answered by eclomaxkiwi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think Buddha was a Pantheist, as in, he believed that God is everything and everything is God, and there's no such white guy with a big white beard in the sky condemning or honoring your every action.
2007-12-08 17:46:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is possible
he said the question of a creator could never be known
2007-12-08 17:45:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yup
2007-12-08 17:45:15 · answer #10 · answered by Winter Glory 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes.
2007-12-08 17:49:48 · answer #11 · answered by Al Qiyamah{top lawyer inshAllah} 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋