Toggling between Christ and Shakespeare doesn't make you a brilliant critic of the human condition. It makes you at best pretentious, and at worst, unable to articulate your own brand of views correctly.
Buddha and Jesus do not have anything in common when you get to their actual theology and actual messages. It's a disgusting misrepresentation of both religions to say, well, they were nice to poor people and said to treat each other well, so they're the same thing.
I know what Jesus preached: cut off your own limb if it offends you. Abandon your family to follow me. There is a God who you must follow or be cast into hell forever. I will kill this fig tree because it's not bearing fruit when I want it to. Buddha...not so much. The sermon on the mount is a fraction of the so-called New Testament. You may want to haul through all four gospels and do some comparisons with the writings of the Buddha. You're a scholar...and yet you've decided that Jesus is about peace, love, and poverty. Er, no, not really.
Keep throwing your quotes at me, though. Maybe some combination of words might prove to me that you're not just using life as a buffet.
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Buddha and Jesus do not have anything in common when you get to their actual theology and actual messages. It's a disgusting misrepresentation of both religions to say, well, they were nice to poor people and said to treat each other well, so they're the same thing.
I know what Jesus preached: cut off your own limb if it offends you. Abandon your family to follow me. There is a God who you must follow or be cast into hell forever. I will kill this fig tree because it's not bearing fruit when I want it to. Buddha...not so much. The sermon on the mount is a fraction of the so-called New Testament. You may want to haul through all four gospels and do some comparisons with the writings of the Buddha. You're a scholar...and yet you've decided that Jesus is about peace, love, and poverty. Er, no, not really.
Keep throwing your quotes at me, though. Maybe some combination of words might prove to me that you're not just using life as a buffet.