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To: Lennon
Buddha is to Buddhism as Jesus is to Christianity. (Buddha and Jesus were men who walked the Earth, prophets if you will)

Wrong on both counts.

Buddha is not God, since true Buddism has no personal God. (most Buddists recognize God, but that's another story).Buddha is not a prophet, since by definition a prophet is one sent by God.

Buddha was a seeker of truth and unity with a higher power.

Jesus, on the other hand, is a prophet to Muslims, but the one and a half billion Christians consider him God incarnate.

Similarly, Zeus was a God, but later philosophers recognized a higher GOD. Vishnu is an immanation of God, and all the other millions of Hindu Gods are immanations of God.

a closer analogy, one used by many New Agers, is that Jesus is to God as Krishna is to God.

Go back to college and learn comparative religion before you discuss the subject.

16 posted on 07/01/2002 4:06:34 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: LadyDoc
Wrong on both counts.

While writing this, I was trying to come up with some good analogies because I knew people would rip them apart. You did miss one, however, Allah is actually the Arabic word for God, and not the name of God.

At any rate, the analogies are irrelevant if you understand that none of them equate God.

Oh, and BTW, I've never been to college so it would be a bit hard to go back, but I do know a bit about comparative religion. Oh my, someone actually learning out side of school...

19 posted on 07/01/2002 4:20:44 PM PDT by Lennon
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