Believe.

Troll Patrol. Locked.

Buddha was once preaching on the banks of a broad and deep river near Sravastf. The people there were unbelievers. Suddenly, to their astonishment, a man was seen crossing the river by walking on the surface of the water. " What means this portent ? " they said to the man. He gave answer, that being unable to procure a boat, and wishing to hear the preaching of Buddha, he had boldly walked over " because he believed."

Thank you for this apocryphal story of the Buddha. You appear to be using it in order to convince people to accept unreasonable propositions based on faith without evidence.

Before using Buddhism to do this, you should probably first understand that it is a non-theistic spiritualistic worldview. It is not, as such, a "religion". In this article, the Dalai Lama calls Buddhism an atheistic worldview:

Dalai Lama: I'm Buddhist, I'm a Buddhist practitioner. So actually I think that according to nontheistic Buddhist belief, things are due to causes and conditions. No creator. So I have faith in our actions, not prayer. Action is important. Action is karma. Karma means action. That's an ancient Indian thought. In nontheistic religions, including Buddhism, the emphasis is on our actions rather than god or Buddha. So some people say that Buddhism is a kind of atheism. Some scholars say that Buddhism is not a religion — it's a science of the mind.

Interviewer: Do you agree with that?

Dalai Lama: Oh, yes. I even consider Buddha and some of his important followers like Nagarjuna (one of Buddha's leading disciples) to be scientists. Their main method is analytical. Analyze, analyze — not emphasis on faith. And these masters are not magicians.

Those are excellent quotes.

I believe
There are no gods
Evidence supports this

Each day I wake up with a new plan to locate the gods. I have searched closets, picked up rocks to look under, resorted to microscopes, yelled insults and sat quiet waiting, all to no avail. Each time I ask a god believer for help they tell me I have the problem and must be more receptive. How receptive can an objective person be? If gods existed they would want me to know and make a point of being found, so far all is quiet.

That put a smile on my face peteonbeach =)