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[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While Hitchens is a bit of an arrogant blowhard. He's not wrong, they are all mostly wrong with Buddhists being an interesting outlier. The truth is much easier and obvious than "some guy sitting in a cloud smiting us for being what it created us to be". Think how boring that would eventually get. You want your projects to work, how frustrating would it be to be so incompetent this was all unintentional. God(the admin of this little zone) does not play dice.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How are buddhists an outlier?

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'd guess because they aren't theists, or at least not as a rule. As a religion it trends more philosophical than mystical.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's an outlier because it isn't really a religion so much as it is a set of philosophies.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

I'm guessing you haven't spent much time in countries where people leave offerings to various Buddhas and Bodhisattva in the hopes of positive interventions in love and business.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

You might be thinking of Taoism. Buddhism is very much a religion.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

B/c atheism is just another religion where people pick and choose whatever they want to believe.