Dependent Origination & Jesus the Liberator

[gavesako]

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

Dependent Origination & Jesus the Liberator

http://spreadtheflame.com/2012/11/chris ... igination/

[Modus.Ponens]

That was hilarious Bhante.

[Kim OHara]

indeed.

[Dan74]

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.

[tiltbillings]

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.

[m0rl0ck]

Hey its the internet, everybody has the god given right to make a fool of them selves

[Alobha]

[plwk]

Yes Bhante, when the kool aid runs out, there's still...

[polarbuddha101]

Inevitable.

[Kusala]

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Gandhi

[Justsit]

Well, if you ask a Christian, he isn't dead - he rose on Easter and went back to heaven.
Just sayin'...

[James the Giant]

This may not be relevant, but I love it anyway...

[Dan74]

This may not be relevant, but I love it anyway...

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?

[Dhammanando]

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.

[Kusala]

This may not be relevant, but I love it anyway...