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I think this rightly belongs in the "Lounge" section:

Dependent Origination & Jesus the Liberator

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:rolleye: :offtopic:
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That was hilarious Bhante. :mrgreen:
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:rolleye: indeed.
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I've seen worse. It appears to be a sincere, well-meaning and reasonably intelligent attempt. Though it does seem to make a huge leap of faith and logic at the crucial spot and proclaim Jesus to be an answer to all "issues" of Buddhism, when Buddhism gives a more cogent answer already.
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Dan74 wrote:I've seen worse. It appears to be a sincere, well-meaning and reasonably intelligent attempt. Though it does seem to make a huge leap of faith and logic at the crucial spot and proclaim Jesus to be an answer to all "issues" of Buddhism, when Buddhism gives a more cogent answer already.
It is neither sincere nor well-meaning; there is no genuine attempt at engagement with Buddhism in that. It is naught more-than bald-faced proselytism, but it is rather unintentionally humorous.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

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:jumping:

Hey its the internet, everybody has the god given right to make a fool of them selves :)
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Yes Bhante, when the kool aid runs out, there's still... Image
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Inevitable. :sage:
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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Gandhi
"He, the Blessed One, is indeed the Noble Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened One;
He is impeccable in conduct and understanding, the Serene One, the Knower of the Worlds;
He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained; he is Teacher of gods and men; he is Awake and Holy. "

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Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation,
Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the wise. "
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Alobha wrote:Image

:mrgreen:
Well, if you ask a Christian, he isn't dead - he rose on Easter and went back to heaven.
Just sayin'...
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This may not be relevant, but I love it anyway...

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Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
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James the Giant wrote:This may not be relevant, but I love it anyway...

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Tilt, I got an impression that the writer took some time to learn basic Dhamma (though may have understood little of it). Unlike some other Christian sites I didn't see grotesque distortions and slander but what appeared to me a genuine attempt to answer Buddhist questions, as he understood them, with his Christian faith.

He probably didn't make the effort to delve into the religion he was critiquing properly, but then you hardly expect the proselytizing folks to do that, do you?
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gavesako wrote:I think this rightly belongs in the "Lounge" section:

Dependent Origination & Jesus the Liberator
I should love to arrange for a meeting between this John Lambert fellow and the Baptist pastor Rev. Tip.

Rev. Tip was originally an animist and hereditary shaman of Mae Soon, the Pgaz K'Nyau village where I live. His conversion to Christianity appears to have been rather skin-deep and the man remains an animist at heart, subsuming the Gospel under animism much as John Lambert subsumes the Dhamma under Christianity.

In the Tipist christology, for example, Jesus enjoys the exalted status of guardian spirit of the Mae Soon village too-hoo tree. This is the tree on whose branches Pgaz K'Nyau hill-tribe women will nail their dried umbilical cords after giving birth to a son. This may perhaps strike Christians as a bit of a demotion from being the Divine Logos, co-eternal with the Father, etc., but Rev. Tip's having none of it. As far as he's concerned he's done the bearded farang hippy a great favour by appointing him to this exalted post.
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James the Giant wrote:This may not be relevant, but I love it anyway...

Image
:twothumbsup:
"He, the Blessed One, is indeed the Noble Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened One;
He is impeccable in conduct and understanding, the Serene One, the Knower of the Worlds;
He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained; he is Teacher of gods and men; he is Awake and Holy. "

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"The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One,
Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation,
Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the wise. "
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