(June 1, 2012 at 1:56 pm)StatCrux Wrote:(June 1, 2012 at 1:49 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The only thing that conflicts with being an atheist is believing in a God or gods. Now, most of ye Westerne atheistes are rational skeptics when it comes to epistemology and humanists when it comes to morality. While it would be understandable to base one's understanding of theism on Hinduism if one had only been talking to Hindus, the same kind of thing is going on when you try to apply your understanding of skeptical atheists to Buddhist atheists.
Doesn't the six realms of buddhism prove problematic then?
1.God realm
2.Demi-God realm
3.Human realm
4.Animal realm
5.Hungry Ghost realm
6.Hell realm
Or do atheists just ignore that part? Isn't that cherry picking?
I don't think people should chenge their beliefa to fit a religion, they should find a religion to fit their beliefs. As long as you're not hypocritical about it, I don't see any reason why people can't believe in some things and not others. You may call it cherry picking but I just see it as making a religion comfortable with you.
