What is Atheism?

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But my point was not about technology, it was about theism and atheism in the West vs East.  In philosophy of theism or atheism the East is far better than the West.

Tiger, I hate to break it to you, but you don't actually understand atheism, whether eastern or western.

There are atheists in the west who believe in souls. There are atheists in the east who don't. In neither case is their stance on the existence of the soul mandated by their atheism, because atheism is not a religion or other kind of establishment. It is literally nothing but the lack of belief in gods. It has nothing whatsoever to say on any other subject. It does not "corrupt the open thoughts", or anything else, because atheism is not a school of thought or method for examining the world. It is a conclusion, not an assumption.

What you actually seem to take issue with is skepticism and rationality, not atheism. These are the things that most commonly lead to atheism, as well as the conclusion that souls and similar things are not real. But these things don't "corrupt" thought, either. They are methods for determining what is true and what is not. It just happens that things like the soul do not exist, and so they are discarded.

I'm sorry you don't like that, but the facts don't care whether or not you like them.