As a Buddhist, I am technically an atheist, but I cannot say that I do not believe in a god or higher power. I do not know whether one does or does not exist and I myself, no longer believe there is a god that I grew up studying as a Catholic, but I do believe there is a higher power.
As a person who studied science, I believe there should be answers for most things. But, I also believe that the human mind and nature have power that science can not understand. At least not yet.
I guess I believe that there may be a god, but I do not worship one. I just do the best to try and become more enlightened and hope that doing good for the sake of doing good is seen as equal to doing good because someone thinks that is what some god wants.
Did that even make sense?
Perfect sense. I have many agnostic friends. I think these days more people are beginning to silently question the existence of a god.
I decided I was an atheist well before I started reading The God Delusion, but he's got some really interesting points, like Bertrand Russell's celestial teapot, and how religious groups come up with different reasons as to why prayer didn't work for something.
Also, he doesn't consider Buddhism a religion, but rather a set of values or philosophy of life.
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