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Originally Posted by ape descendant
some budhists are atheists, yet still believe in some aspect of the supernatural.
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Assuming you mean Buddhists, you can't drag us into this as the idea of not clinging to preconceived truths is pretty important for practice. Believing that there is no god at all would mean that if there is a god or higher power you wouldn't be able to find that truth, so its considered best to sit on the fence until you meet God. I do know Buddhists who say "there is no God," but it contradicts the religion.
Besides, most Buddhist traditions if not all do talk of an "Ultimate Reality" not unlike the Tao, so mostly its just that Buddhists have a different idea of what "God" is and I assume any "atheist" Buddhists just want to make it clear that they don't believe in the Judeo-Christian concept of God.