Now where does this "apologist" in his links you posted to me try to dispossess Buddha /Christ kinship ?
He seemed reluctant to go into that ....
I'm not surprised that with all the new found zeal of the rising of a new religion finally accepted in a vast empire as Christianity achieved eventually , and with all the energy of martyrdom first and it's newness.... and promise of heavenly eternal rewards thru grace good actions etc ....and then by the force of arms and irreplaceable library burnings later (Alexandria, what a terrible loss ), that any apologist could easily depose the older egyptian Gods Horus , Amen Ra , etc ...their being from a defeated and wanning ancient and more outdated theology . The times were changing .
But where , I'm curious does this fellow go in depth to depose the direct parralels of the Buddha's life and teachings , and his "apostles" . It was fastly growing over to the east and swept across Asia .An entirely different geography and earlier timeline , and yet all the same components of the teachings are remarkably present . And as Buddhism came into China , it found Taoism already present . Could it be , it cannot be done ?
No Christian apologist yet has even been able to make the slightest dent in this story of the Buddha or his teachings. So there is the proof , Christianity is only one facet of a larger gem , and God did in fact send other Sons to save different parts of the world . You can only burn so many fabulous libraries you know brian<G>
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But I would like to see this fellows argument in any case . Or did he not make one ? I always find them very amusing... |
