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If you don't believe in God (Allah, Buddah, Guia, etc...), then I honestly feel sorry for you, because you have no hope.  And what is life worth without hope?

Buddha isn't a god. Buddhism isn't about worshipping any god, it's about transcendence. Buddha isnt a single person or being. Buddha is a type of person who has awakened to the true nature of existence, whose insight allows them to achieve a state of deathless peace and allows them to help others achieve the same level of enlightenment. A person can be both an Atheist and a Buddhist since Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of a god or gods and Buddhism does not conflict with that belief. Buddhism is actually one of the few religions that can be logically justified and does not use fallacious arguments.

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Quote (human_of_the_plains @ Oct. 17 2004, 10:27 pm) If you don't believe in God (Allah, Buddah, Guia, etc...), then I honestly feel sorry for you, because you have no hope. And what is life worth without hope? Buddha isn't a god. Buddhism isn't about worshipping any god, it's about transcendence. Buddha isnt a single person or being. Buddha is a type of person who has awakened to the true nature of existence, whose insight allows them to achieve a state of deathless peace and allows them to help others achieve the same level of enlightenment. A person can be both an Atheist and a Buddhist since Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of a god or gods and Buddhism does not conflict with that belief.

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Buddhism is actually one of the few religions that can be logically justified and does not use fallacious arguments.

How? and can you prove this?

OK. Before the glitch on ST.com's site, I had a decent sized post, but because I don't want to retype all of it, here's the Reader's Digest version.  

We will not all agree whether or not there is a God, it just ain't gonna happen.  And, I don't believe science can either prove or disprove God's existence; besides, that's not what it's purpose is, science is in place to show the why's and how's of His creation.

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Quote (Giantevilhead @ Oct. 18 2004, 8:08 pm) Quote (human_of_the_plains @ Oct. 17 2004, 10:27 pm) If you don't believe in God (Allah, Buddah, Guia, etc...), then I honestly feel sorry for you, because you have no hope. And what is life worth without hope? Buddha isn't a god. Buddhism isn't about worshipping any god, it's about transcendence. Buddha isnt a single person or being. Buddha is a type of person who has awakened to the true nature of existence, whose insight allows them to achieve a state of deathless peace and allows them to help others achieve the same level of enlightenment. A person can be both an Atheist and a Buddhist since Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of a god or gods and Buddhism does not conflict with that belief. Quote Buddhism is actually one of the few religions that can be logically justified and does not use fallacious arguments. How? and can you prove this?

Buddhism teaches that religion should be logical, practical, and actually help people to achieve enlightenment. Buddhism is taught as more of a philosophy than a religion. Buddhism actually encourages skepticism and questioning of concepts and ideas and theory or belief is off limits.

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Quote (lanceromega @ Oct. 19 2004, 2:10 am) Quote (Giantevilhead @ Oct. 18 2004, 8:08 pm) Quote (human_of_the_plains @ Oct. 17 2004, 10:27 pm) If you don't believe in God (Allah, Buddah, Guia, etc...), then I honestly feel sorry for you, because you have no hope.  And what is life worth without hope? Buddha isn't a god. Buddhism isn't about worshipping any god, it's about transcendence. Buddha isnt a single person or being. Buddha is a type of person who has awakened to the true nature of existence, whose insight allows them to achieve a state of deathless peace and allows them to help others achieve the same level of enlightenment. A person can be both an Atheist and a Buddhist since Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of a god or gods and Buddhism does not conflict with that belief. Quote Buddhism is actually one of the few religions that can be logically justified and does not use fallacious arguments. How? and can you prove this? Buddhism teaches that religion should be logical, practical, and actually help people to achieve enlightenment. Buddhism is taught as more of a philosophy than a religion. Buddhism actually encourages skepticism and questioning of concepts and ideas and theory or belief is off limits.

but does this prove a logical justification that you claim or that it agruements are any less fallacious then any other religion...

But the fact that Buddhism allows for questioning and argument of its concepts and ideas rather than just saying that people "should have faith" at least shows an acceptance of logic which other religions lack. Unfortunately, the only way I can prove to you that the arguments put forth Buddhism possess little or no logical fallacies is by showing you all the teachings of the religion and proving to you that they are all logically sound and that would take a very long time which I do not have. So regrettably, I can only refer you to some websites that has information about Buddhism and you may have to discern for yourself the soundness of Buddhist teachings. Heres a good one:

http://www.buddhistinformation.com/

Heres an article from that site describing the nature of Buddhism:

http://www.buddhistinformation.com/is_buddhism_a_religion1.htm