(March 16, 2015 at 11:02 am)Brian37 Wrote: [
Buddhism is NOT a philosophy, it is a religion. It has hero figures, prayers, rituals, monks, holy places. Just like every other religion.
That's a little bit like saying atheism is not a philosophy, but a religion, because many self professed atheists have had heros, rituals, holy places, and for all practical purposes prayers and monks.
The Buddhism philosophy is not explicitly antitheist. But in itself, while not rational by contempoary standards, is not theistic either. So the fact that buddhism can easily alloy with other social currents to menifest overtly theistic or religious characteristics does not make buddhist input into the resulting alloy a religion in itself.
