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Han Buddhism has turned from religion to culture. Unless you believe that the dragon parades are done out of faith instead of culture. It is the main architectural style of Chinese history.
It is like Christmas in America. Most people celebrating it don't even believe in Christianity. It's just become a tradition
Read also the Chinese governments explanation:
https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/islamsinifcationplan/
So, not only you didn't reflected but also doubling down claiming... "cultural buddhism" from "state atheist" country? Maybe look at ancient Chinese architecture, it was already developing that style long before buddhism arrived in China. Not to mention architecture as a proof of cultural invasion is weak as hell, i guess i am not a Pole anymore because a lot of our churches are build in either Italian or Franco-German style. Oh, and you also show typical orientalism by conflating religion with entire culture. Also Uyghurs weren't even muslim for most of their history, they were buddhist longer than muslim, and before that they were manichean and before that shamanist.
This is going to blow your mind https://www.ncregister.com/cna/famous-atheist-richard-dawkins-says-he-considers-himself-a-cultural-christian
The guy who i since long ago not considered atheist but an seeking agnostic with western chauvinist characteristics suddenly clicked up to religion that is theological base of western chauvinism?
Mind status: not even slightly rustled.
That's guy literally made Atheism his personality. If you don't consider that Atheist I'm not sure what is.
No, he might said he is atheist, and probably he even believed it himself, but did you even read any of his books? He loudly denounced this or that god, but everything was just oozing with the essence of agnostic seeking new spiritual opium. At the point he defended evolution theory with truly neophyte zeal (i'm saying about how he presented it) so when he clicked back to his old opium, just with the meaningless "cultural" addition, it wasn't surprising at all.