Lev Lafayette's journal

3. No more than any other school of thought, such as atheism, that makes absolute metaphysical claims. The issue is how much religion claims it should be able to enforce its wishes on society (in particular the modern state), which is a different issue. Buddhism, for example, doesn't actually claim to make absolute metaphysical claims in some variants (it claims its teachings are testable hypotheses that each believer should test for themselves) but it can still be problematic.