No one “believes” in atheism. It’s using your brain to determine that fantastic stories, written thousands of years before the advent of modern scientific rigor, are undoubtedly bullshit.
I’m guessing you haven’t spent much time in countries where people leave offerings to various Buddhas and Bodhisattva in the hopes of positive interventions in love and business.
How are buddhists an outlier?
B/c atheism is just another religion where people pick and choose whatever they want to believe.
No one “believes” in atheism. It’s using your brain to determine that fantastic stories, written thousands of years before the advent of modern scientific rigor, are undoubtedly bullshit.
I’d guess because they aren’t theists, or at least not as a rule. As a religion it trends more philosophical than mystical.
It’s an outlier because it isn’t really a religion so much as it is a set of philosophies.
You might be thinking of Taoism. Buddhism is very much a religion.
I’m guessing you haven’t spent much time in countries where people leave offerings to various Buddhas and Bodhisattva in the hopes of positive interventions in love and business.