A. Frankly speaking, I don’t think I can give you a correct answer because I have not either had or studied any other religion for as long as I have had Buddhism. To the best of my knowledge, all religions worship gods although they pray at different places to different gods on different days, or dates in different ways.
However, Buddhism has no god to worship, or pray to, although Buddha statues in temples may cause people to think that Buddhism worships the Buddha as its god. In fact, it is not for the purpose of worshipping but in honour of the historical Buddha as a great teacher that temples have Buddha statues. Buddhism is not a religion that worships and prays to a god for happiness and an eternal life but a religion that leads people to realise that everything, including themselves, is a perfect being.
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