[Bennett]

Excellent, thanks a lot for the link, I will look at it more once I'm outside of work. I think that I understand you more now, and that our viewpoints are actually quite similar. I was under the impression that it was more of a "buddhism is not as good as christianity," or that it isn't substantial enough to be a religion... and it was my attempt to find out why someone would think such.

I'm not so sure on where we would intersect, philosophically/religiously on this subject. I consider myself to be a buddhist/atheist mix. I admittedly use aspects of buddhism as a crutch. The thoughts on impermanence are actually something that I find oddly comforting. I think if anything buddhism and aheism mix really well (if that makes any sense at all), mostly because of meditations on impermanence and as you mentioned, "All will become part of the whole."