Kasz216 said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Buddhism is a religion, because even without a theistic force, there are good things and bad things that happen after you die, and ways to try to achieve the good things. This is why I'm so interested in Buddhism, because it's a religion without a G-d. And the core force in Zen in particular is actually a belief in nothing, which makes it almost close to Nihilism, even though it's the exact opposite in practice.
I think the main difference is that religions have codes of conduct for this life, based on what happens in the next life. It could be heaven or hell, or it could be reincarnation or samsara, or it could be anything. Pantheism, monotheism, and polytheism all have this in common. Atheism does not.
I don't see how you can have any religion without an afterlife. I think anything else is philosophy. |
They've existed. I believe the Sumerians or Assyrians believed this.(i forget which.) You were created by the gods. To live on earth and serve them to their every whim... and when you died... you no longer existed.
Very pessmistic people.
Pretty sure early judiasm or christianity (or both) didn't have an afterlife either.
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Haha, even without a land of the dead or anything? Kickass. Well, I can still cram that into my philosophy vs. religion idea by calling it a theistic philosophy, in the way that Buddhism is an atheist religion.
