(November 6, 2013 at 2:14 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I read a explanation for a user here on Hinduism that said it's basically like if anceint greece took their whole culture and packaged it into something called greekism. Now india has a very rich history that developed some explicitly atheist philisophies that some consider to be part of hinduism hence the question.
There is a Hindu tradition that is atheistic. It is known as
Sāṃkhya
The system rejects God, gods, creator gods and personal gods. Instead, much like Buddhism it distinguishes a true reality from the false reality presented to us by the sense and the conclusions stemming from these.
Here is brief functional description of the system,
Sankhya and Vedanta
"This time the bullet cold rocked ya a yellow ribbon instead of a swastika?" -RATM
