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Doug Freyburger wrote:

Buddhism is an entire faith which does not require any address to deity.
There are Buddhist sects that do address deity but it is always
optional. There are also religions that are theistic in their writings
that do not require it of their members. Once you're past Christianity
and Islam, numbers one and two in world population, few of the remaining
religions make such a requirement even in theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Buddhism
The refutation[1] of the notion of a supreme God or a prime mover is
seen as a key distinction between Buddhism and other religions. Hence,
Buddhism is often aptly described as a

"spiritual philosophy" [Which would be my view, not a religion.-Billy]

whose sole aim is the complete alleviation of stress in samsara,[2][3]
called nirvana. The Buddha explicitly rejects a creator,[4] denies
endorsing any views on creation[5] and states that questions on the
origin of the world are worthless.[6][7] Some theists beginning Buddhist
meditation believe that the notion of divinity is not incompatible with
Buddhism,[8] but belief in a Supreme God is eminently considered to pose
a hindrance to the attainment of nirvana,[9] the highest goal of
Buddhist practice.[10]

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- Billy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vN0--mHug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw