(December 18, 2014 at 6:23 am)jesus_wept Wrote: Isn't the dalai llama a living god/god king who thinks the world owes him a living because he's supposedly holy?
So much for buddhism being atheist. It's the same bullshit as all the other religions.
Not exactly, he's a reincarnation of the Llama's, the first of which was an adviser and probably appointed by a direct descendant of Kublai Khan. It almost seems like a joke that people take stuff like this seriously, much less thinks that he gives him the right to rule over a country like Tibet.
Buddhism is Atheist only in the most technical of senses that they don't believe in a God. It's hardly Atheist in the way that we think of it though, which is really Naturalism, that nothing supernatural exists. There is tons of supernatural garbage in Buddhism. Most people who say "Buddhism is Atheist" are just making flimsy excuses for why they like something just because it's foreign and trendy.