Therefore, Samkhya maintained not only that the various cosmological, ontological and teleological arguments could not prove god, but that god as normally understood—an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent creator who is free from suffering—cannot exist.
In some ways people had got used to the idea that India was spiritual and religion-oriented. That gave a leg up to the religious interpretation of India, despite the fact that Sanskrit had a larger atheistic literature than what exists in any other classical language. Madhava Acharya, the remarkable 14th century philosopher, wrote this rather great book called Sarvadarshansamgraha, which discussed all the religious schools of thought within the Indian structure. The first chapter is Atheism – a very strong presentation of the argument in favor of atheism and materialism
Aha. Good. This is atheism. But if you read the wiki article you’ll notice the first paragraph, that “Hindu atheism” is used to describe atheists, agnostics and non-theists, as well as spiritual belief that rejects the existence of the main god (bot not other shiet).
This is what OP calls atheism
Hinduism is quite sophisticated and you can be atheist / agnostic while still being Hindu ie. believing in concepts like karma, samsara, moksha, and advaita.
Reincarnation belief is not atheism. Karma & Samsara take the place of the deity and judgment of your life deeds according to divine moral compass, it’s just that they are not anthropomorphic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_atheism
This is a Hindi term to describe a pick-your-beliefs Hindu. It’s a proper term though, like a city name, so maybe that’s why you’re confused.
Did you read the article you linked?
Sounds pretty atheist to me.
Aha. Good. This is atheism. But if you read the wiki article you’ll notice the first paragraph, that “Hindu atheism” is used to describe atheists, agnostics and non-theists, as well as spiritual belief that rejects the existence of the main god (bot not other shiet).
This is what OP calls atheism
Reincarnation belief is not atheism. Karma & Samsara take the place of the deity and judgment of your life deeds according to divine moral compass, it’s just that they are not anthropomorphic.