It's sort of a moot point now.
Here's why:
Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Jainism are not religious theology.
Instead, their practices are primarily in the realm of "Consciousness" and understanding that ALL existence is the ONE Consciousness of the Universe.
Therefore, the God of Abraham Trilogy (Judaism, Christianity & Islam) are antiquated beliefs in "something" non-human that *may have* visited this planet 20k-400K years ago and colonized it.
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I personally became an "Atheist" in the late 1970's after I left Protestant Christianity out of disgust for their mind-numbing idiocy and False prophecy, ie. "Rapture".
However, during the early 2000's I began to appreciate what Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha (a Hindu himself, born about 566 BCE) was teaching and eventually I began reading the "Yoga Aphorisms" of Patanjali from the Hindu practices.
Those practices were based in Meditation and the quieting of "the EGO".
So technically, Buddhists are atheists by default, because they define "God" as the Universal Consciousness that all Existence shares.
Humans are all "Divine within" because we are consciousness within and we are aspects of the Universal consciousness observing itself through Us.
We are ALL gods within!
A quote from Patanjali's "Yoga Aphorisms"
"The Soul does not love, It is Love Itself.
It does not exist, It is Existence Itself.
It does not know, It is Knowledge Itself.
How to know God."
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