#the Buddhist way of thinking would say that the opinon of others trying to define your beliefs are not relevant

[itscoldinwonderland]

White western atheist love to try and athe-ize and secularize non-white religions. They will say things like "buddhism isn't a religion and they don't believe in god, it's just a philosophy really" and then a Buddhist will respond "actually Buddhism is a religion and we don't really consider ourselves atheist and we have spiritual beliefs that involve mysticism", then the atheist will try to convince the Buddhist that they don't know their own religion. This isn't even specific to Buddhism, I've seen this with Hinduism and even Judaism and with belief systems like pantheism (which litterally has theism in the name). It's wild idk.

#text post #theism #religion #spirituality #buddhism #im no longer Buddhist but ya that happened a lot to me #the Buddhist way of thinking would say that the opinon of others trying to define your beliefs are not relevant #which is why you wont see many Buddhist engaging in discussion on if buddhism is s religion bc it doesn't matter what you call it #but just so we clear it is..