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

@Entwistle

Native Buddhist monks and lay folks in the Far East pray to Buddha as having been raised to the status of a god, one among many gods.

So, they are theistic, they don't pray to mental states, but to gods of all sorts for all kinds of needs.

You Entwistle are a self-convinced (wrongly) and westernized Buddhist, let you live in the Far East, there in the homelands where Buddhism is the common ethnic religion, and the folks there will recognize you to be out of your mind, with your ideas about non-existence of your body: whereas you do eat and defecate, and also see a local dentist when a decaying tooth is giving you extreme pain and swellig of your cheeks.

Entwistle · 51-55, M

@yrger Some Buddhists worship Gautama..that doesn't make him a god.
Buddhism does not teach that gods exist out there. The gods mentioned in Buddhism symbolize mental states.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@yrger native Buddhist?

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@yrger Sadly you are just a silly person who fails to understood what is being said.
The philosophy of Buddhism teaches no gods exist. The very core teachings themselves say nothing exists inherently, intrinsically..not even for a moment. Also Dependent origination explains how nothing exists independent..therefore no god exists.
No self,no i nothing exists outside of the mind. Even the mind is a dependently existing stream.
Everything is dependently originated.
All things come into and exit existence every moment.