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Stephen Batchelor, buddhism scholar and author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, compares the Buddhist concept of karma with the Judeo-Christian belief in the will of God. Both convictions, he says, function in a way that "has effectively drawn upon a system of explanation that has virtually no explanatory power."
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Stephen Batchelor talks about Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.
According to Batchelor, the outlook of the Buddha was far removed from the religiosity that has come to define much of Buddhism as we know it today. He argues that the Buddha was a man more focused on life in this world than the afterlife. - Book Passage
Stephen Batchelor is an author and Buddhist scholar whose works include Living with the Devil, Meditation for Life, and Buddhism without Beliefs.
