(February 26, 2015 at 12:35 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Lots of atheists and Buddhists like to claim Buddhism is atheistic. That is no different than claiming Jews can be atheists. Yes you can find Jews who like the religion and the rituals who don't believe in a god.
Judaism is not only a religion, but also a culture and an ethnicity. That is why there are atheist Jews.
As for Buddhism --- it is possible to follow the philosophy without believing in any deity ---- but if Buddhism is *traditionally* atheistic, there are lots of traditional Buddhist teachers who haven't got the memo.