Are Buddhists really atheists?

Atheists in the West claim that Buddhists are atheists, so they (the atheists in the West) feel better that they are not the only atheists in the world.

My purpose is to ask Buddhists whether they really deny that God exists.

From my part, I know from my reason and intelligence that God exists.

So, paging Buddhists, please come over and let us discuss whether you Buddhists really deny God exists.

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yrger · 80-89, M

@Pfuzylogic

Have you ever gone to the Far East and lived in a Buddhist monastic community for years and years?

You know about Buddhism from the biased information of Western atheists who never ever been to the Far East and lived for years with the monks in a truly ethnic Buddhist monastic ommunity.

The monks there are not atheists the way Western atheists are - atheists in the West are targetting the Christian God, but the Buddhist monks in the Far East pray to god and even gods for all kinds of favors in their daily life, and so also the lay Buddhist folks, they even raised the Gautama up as one of their mayny gods.

So, Buddshim the original Buddhism is never against the existence of god and even gods

Pfuzylogic · M

@yrger So who are these mythical Gods. I would guess that absolutely no one here on the site has been at a far eastern monastery for years and years.
It is simple enough to answer the inquiry without visiting a hypothetical experience.