Kinda like saying an iPhone is a Samsung if they make the display panel , or Sony for the camera sensor etc . <| sep |> I am not an antitheist , but I think that a BuddhismStoicism derived practice could work in this capacity and is something people should actively try to get going . I was really into Buddhism for a while , never considered myself a Buddhist , but it was really helpful . The point of Buddhism , at least for some people , is to train your mind to not suffer in otherwise painful circumstances . Whether it actually is achievable is another questions , but you certainly can make marginal improvement . There is also this ethos of being kind and tolerant to all living beings and that can be very beautiful and inspiring . Of course , Buddhism is a religion and does the stuff all religions do . So , in practice all the bad stuff happens . And religion or no religion , human beings are very good at grabbing onto irrational beliefs . If religion were to suddenly disappear , I don ' t think much would change . Human society is subject to a kind of evolutionary process itself . Religion exists because it meets certain social needs and helps groups that have it survive better than groups that don ' t . For example , there was a materialistic culture in ancient India , but it disappeared . There were materialistic philosophers in Ancient Greece , but their way of thinking never caught on . Buddhism started out as a religion of selfsufficiency you work hard and transform your own mind yourself to achieve liberation . But eventually , schools arose where you just pray to a bodhisattva and he just saves you . This does no mean that superstition or irrational beliefs are good or have no downside , but they are something we just do as human beings . The submissive impulse is just there . You may like or dislike the fact that , but pretending that it not there is not going to make it go away . I think that , even as atheists , we still make the philosophical mistake of thinking in terms of binary morality . It ' s good to be kind and bad to be cruel . It ' s good to be freedom loving and bad to submit . It ' s good to be unselfish and bad to be selfish or vice versa But all of these things are on a gradient and we continuously calculate the optimal ratio . And even then , there is almost always harm along with the benefit .