That's the name on the new religion that I am intenting to create. It's a mixture of Atheism and Buddhism. Lent started yesterday. I've decided that I'm not giving anything up for the fourth year in a row. Sadly, I have become unjustly bitter about this whole lent situation. I absolutely can't stand when people use lent as motivation to start a new diet or something like that. If I did give something up, I would want it to be something that makes me a better person, but I can never think of something good that falls into the category. I told Alyssa that I can't stand that all of the sudden everyone is in devote catholic mode when they aren't the other 325 days of the year. I like to refer to these people at "situational catholic."
Then, as she usually does, Alyssa called me out on my narrow-mindesness and grounded me in reality. My wise little Buddha (as I refered to her as after she provided me with these words of wisdom) told me that there isn't any "right" way to do something like religion. Touche. I don't even know what I believe anymore. I don't know what I want to believe. Buddhism is really interesting and something that I would love to learn more about, but I don't have the resources or time to do so. My gut feeling when thinking about the future is that I am not going to raise my children in any traditional church setting. Unless my husband has distinct religous beliefs. In that case, I'd probably just let him raise our children with his religion because I could really care less.
I don't think I would call myself an Atheist, but at this point in my life, that may be the closest religious description of myself that I can provide. However, I would like to incorporate some Buddhist belief into my (non)following, hense the term Athei-uddhism.
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