Narky_McDark wrote:But yes, we could imagine that there is some sort of divinity in ourselves if that's what you are saying. So while Christianity is self-less, all of the worship & faith (Is 'faith' right? I'm not sure what the right word to use would be) goes into God, Atheism is pride; where all of the... X... goes into the self. I can believe that.
What you believe is a modified form of Buddhism, which is a non-theistic religion.
There is no place for God in the Mahayana traditions of Buddhism as well, and indeed some of the early Indian Mahayana philosophers have denounced god-worship in terms which are even stronger than those expressed in the Theravada literature. Some later Mahayana schools, which flourished outside India, ascribed some degree of divinity to a transcendent Buddha, considering living Buddhas to be a manifestation of this âdhi-buddha. But even here it cannot be said that the Buddha was converted into a Divinity comparable to the God of the monotheistic religions.
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/budd ... to_god.htm
Faith is the correct word but the works that demonstrate our faith must be totally selfless or they are useless in God's sight. In other words giving to get won't cut it.