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Originally Posted by markings
Why Buddhism?
Because it is one 'religion', probably the only one, which has a sound intellectual framework to support it.
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Buddhism can be practiced as religion or as a discipline of rationality. If the latter it should not be called 'religion' because the latter is based on rational analysis but not belief.
The buddha taught wordlings/housholders on the one hand and his monks on the other hand completely different things. When talking to wordlings/housholders he mostly appealed to belief and when talking to monks he often - not always - appealed to rational analysis.
Believers will not attain cessations but they may attain (not necessarily do attain) 'the realm of gods' - metaphorically spoken - which of course is impermanent and has to be established again and again.