To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (16561 ) 3/4/2004 6:40:33 PM From: 2MAR$ Respond to of 28931 No one can be forgiven their sins and saved through Buddha. God made the way through His Son Jesus well sydney , just reinsert the word Buddha for Jesus , and there , you have said exactly the same thing. God gave men free-will to choose , and they speak in different languages in varying degrees of expressions vanity and pride and prejudice according to the indoctrination they recieved. Whe you strip away the veneer of all these things , you'll find the center and calm of the Buddha sitting there shining thru , even there shining thru your Jesus , who is just another in a long line of Buddhas , albeit one of the desert sages. Feel free to call him "Gods Only Son", for you have the illusion of free will to delude yourself even in this false proclaimation....he was only one , and there have been many. Just more magic words and incantation..an ancient rite of passage . Yours is the prejudice of Empire and long centuries old indoctrination....as is Islam . You fail Christ issuing these statements , and they are quite meaningless , in the face of other foundational beliefs more tolerant than your own. Even if one chooses to be an atheist , it is still a life between himself and the forces that be to work out. Life is no less great an experience , for a believer than for a non-believer , no matter what the Bible tells you. Little children know this , from out of everywhere , early and often. * you do remember what happened to Sparta of Greece don't you ? They were the most excellent in preserving the staus quo and with the intractable devotion to a conservative regime as one could have ever hoped for . The indoctrinated the youth with a fervor and vision of a society locked into its own self generated myth of superiority ...and exercised often the right to proclaim this superiority , but in the end they proved nothing more than a vane elitist oligarchy , stuck in time . they were so sure of themselves too , and did monsterous things in the name of preserving "the faith" & the Spartan Way . But they could not learn to change ...that was their downfall. The greater world at large , was mnightier than they .