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Originally Posted by GirlySports
When children go to Buddhist temples and that drum is beaten into their heads, they leave very quickly.
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Buddhism seems pretty laid-back as far as religions go - how is it passed on from generation to generation if not at temple? Is it teaching by example?
If my dim recollection of Buddhist teachings is correct, belief in the supernatural is not required (although permitted and in some traditions practiced), which certainly gets around practically all of the objections to religion I have, but on what do Buddhists therefore base their beliefs? Is it possible to be an atheist and a Buddhist at the same time?