(August 24, 2013 at 11:02 am)Sword of Christ Wrote:Quote:Did you just pull that out of your ass? Buddhism and the big Chinese philosophers predate Christianity by hundreds of years. If there are similarities, Christianity stole from it.
Nah the similarities would be from the Enlightened Masters gaining insight to the nature of God independently and interpreting it through their respective culture. Buddhism/Taoism rejects the existence of a creator/personal God so that's a big flaw right there. Also in Buddhism the universe is seen as something evil to be escaped from while in Christianity the universe while harsh is a creation of God and something to be revered as good, though not worshiped of course. So the differences are there they're not exactly carbon copies.
What a nonsense tautology. Buddha and Confucius enumerating the Golden Rule approx. 500 years before Jesus lived was just their culturally-molded insight into God's nature.... right. Bare assertions that demonstrate poor historical knowledge and have no backing are fun to make but are likewise fun to sneer at.
I think it would be much more accurate to say that Buddhism sees the results of human desires as what makes there exist suffering and dissatisfaction in the cosmos, not a clear-cut "it's evil and should be escaped from" claim.
