In this episode of Veritate, I walk through Buddhism the same way I have examined every worldview in this series, by forcing it to answer four questions, who is God, who is man, what went wrong, and how is it fixed. I explain why Buddhism appealed to me as an atheist. It did not demand belief in a creator, it did not rest on revelation, and the Buddha did not claim to be God. It offered a disciplined diagnosis of suffering and a path of detachment that promised relief.
But I also show where that path comes up short when the questions turn from inner turmoil to moral evil. Buddhism can explain suffering through craving and ignorance. It can train the mind and reduce reactivity. What it struggles to do is weigh chosen cruelty with the force that conscience demands. By the end, the popular claim that all religions are the same collapses under honest examination. Next week we turn to Zoroastrianism, a system that names evil directly and forces the question of good and evil into the open.
