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Ever since I learned of Jainism I’ve wished I’d learned of it earlier.

Thank you I just learned about it. Seems compatible with atheism.

It absolutely does not. Jainism is even stricter than Hinduism, to be co-opted with a faithless belief system

It's atheistic in that it's godless (more focused on saints). In its orthodoxy it requires a lot from any practitioner, towards its philosophy.

Atheism isn’t a faithless belief system, it is the absence of either a faith or a belief system.

That absence is also quite compatible with Jainism, the core moral precept of which is simply do no violence.