(August 11, 2014 at 9:39 pm)Polaris Wrote: Buddhism is a version of atheism.I'm sorry, no. Buddhism has its own spiritual beliefs, and just because it doesn't have a god at the front of it doesn't mean that it's able to be called "atheism".
I'll give you Mussolini, but you're going to have to take Buddhism and Atheism as two different things. Non-mutually-exclusive things, but at least have the intellectual decency to NOT conflate the two to make your side of the argument easier to pull off.