Losing My Religion

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I was recently asked why I stopped considering myself Buddhist. My response:

The first answer that popped into my mind was the last few lines of a poem by the iconoclastic Zen monk Ikkyu:
To harden into a Buddha is wrong;
All the more I think so
When I look at a stone Buddha.To answer the question more completely, I think I have to recount my

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Just a bit of smarm.

[anonymous]

One should never publicly proclaim that he/she is an atheist; pretty soon like-minded atheists will find you, ask you to join a club, and before you know it you you have to get up on weekend mornings to talk to people that agree with you about why you agree. It is like being religious, except you can't run for public office in the US. :)