Hello Santosh Thanks for the response. But I have a question regarding Buddhism. As you mentioned Buddhism and Jainism are atheistic in nature, it may be true, but did they start as atheistic ism's?
As History mentions, Prince Siddarth was unhappy cause of human misery he saw and hence renounced everything and went to the forest. Meditated and got enlightened. It was not an easy task for him to be enlightened. Must have been a long process. He could have avoided all that and started doing good works for his people with the wealth that he had as he was a Prince. What was he enlightened with? Isn't it the same thing that we witness in Judaism and hence Christianity too, where ordinary people were enlightened and become prophets? How Buddhism is portrayed is another matter, but the rules set by Buddha were based on something or the other, weren't they revealed to him? Emperor Ashoka too joined Buddism because of what he saw on the field. All those killings. Well that reminds me of Paul, the chosen one who spread the word of God. Before that he was involved in lots of killings and prosecution of early Christians as Saul. About Jainism, it was just a rebellion on Hinduism by Mahavira. I have no much information on it. But what is Atheism? Who started atheism? What are its principles? Do they believe in life after death as most religions believe? (Either, as heaven or hell, or rebirth)? Or are they believers of Darwin's principle of evolution that man came from monkey? Could you shed some light on it? Cheers Jerry Fernandes Santosh Helekar wrote Utter nonsense. At least two ancient religions which use basic human goodness as the source of their morality, Buddhism and Jainism, are atheistic in nature. Ancient materialistic and atheistic philosophies such as the Lokayata philosophy had a much higher moral standard than the theistic religions that emerged centuries later, namely Hinduism, Christianity and Islam.
