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[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not non-religious, but Buddhists don’t believe in god 🤷‍♂️ it’s something

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's way more complicated than that. Can depend on the sect, or even the individual. There's a lot of Buddhist stereotypes that persist from how westerners first reported back about Buddhists to other westerners.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I know, but still, the oldest schools of Buddhism don’t have anything that would equate to what we in the west consider a god, or gods.

I know that in east asia, south-east Asia etc., there are schools of Buddhism that do have gods.

But Buddhism being in many ways a rejection of brahamical religion in north india/nepal, also rejected the idea of gods when it first started to develop. I think that’s pretty uncontroversial no?

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

they dont believe in capital g God but buddhism has plenty of gods for sure

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on the school of Buddhism sure. That’s true. Some don’t have anything resembling what we call God or even gods tho.