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Buddhist Apatheism Atheism is tricky to pin down now „a days. There is the “extreme” atheism that denies the existence of anything supernatural whatsoever, including karma and rebirth. And then there are those that identify as atheists simply because they don‟t believe in god/gods. Either one is fine by me. I can embrace the atheistic idea of no deities, but I choose not to define myself by what I don‟t believe in. I believe Buddhism to be largely apatheistic in its approach to deities. It doesn‟t really matter if god/gods do exist, because they obviously don‟t care about ending our suffering. It falls upon us to end the cycle of samsara (though we may call upon the bodhisattvas to aid us). But as for “complete” atheism, no, I don‟t think it‟s really compatible with what the Buddha taught. The Buddha spoke for kalpas upon kalpas about karma and rebirth. It‟s kind of hard to deny this, isn‟t it?
