RE: Atheism - less war?
April 22, 2013 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2013 at 2:22 pm by Dawud.)
(April 22, 2013 at 12:23 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:(April 22, 2013 at 12:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: They sure like to say that...lol, don't they. Buddhism, by and large, is very religious.
I suppose I view Buddhism, overall, as more of a philosophy than a religion due to the fact that most sects do not believe in a deity.
So what is the difference between a religion and a philosophy?
(April 22, 2013 at 1:26 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:(April 22, 2013 at 12:05 pm)Dawud Wrote: So beliefs and actions etc are not based on atheism at all?
Atheism = lack of belief in a god or gods (some people debate this, not me, as it defines me perfectly).
Everything else is mutually exclusive to this. You can be a secularist, a conservative, a murderer, a misanthrope, even a spiritualist, and an atheist.
However, none of them is relevant to atheism (or, rather, none of them are precondition or a condition of atheism and being an atheist).
So you can be spiritual and atheist - everyone agreed?
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