This reminds me of that John Bixby movie: "The Man From Earth", which says that Jesus was just trying to teach the Jews Buddhism he learned while in India.
Well, that's the whole issue though, isn't it?
No matter what dogma and even the often called un-dogmatic Buddhism...
The Path to Righteousness, Salvation, Enlightenment and so on is always something declared by someone else...
I don't know this Siddharta and he didn't know me, I am sure. Who does he think he is telling me where the On-ramp is to my "Path to -Wheeeeee-."
'cause...
We are all like snowflakes...
<accepts Oscar for best sappy performance>
Maybe, but Jesus hated the ways of the religious in his day and every other self-righteous brute, he even came alongside the prostitutes and defended the woman caught in adultery. As Marianne Faithfull sings "Jesus would still have me". Nothing of divine righteouness required. Thank God.
Well... there's so many ways to read into "The Holy Bible" Historically, Literally, Metaphorically, etc... all of them are relatively valid points of view, and all of them provide different messages. I'm going to leave the Old Testament to Judaism, though. Since I learned my stuff from Catholic School, I'm only going to claim special knowledge of the New Testament.
I didn't think so...
Damn stiffs.
No matter what dogma and even the often called un-dogmatic Buddhism...
The Path to Righteousness, Salvation, Enlightenment and so on is always something declared by someone else...
I don't know this Siddharta and he didn't know me, I am sure. Who does he think he is telling me where the On-ramp is to my "Path to -Wheeeeee-."
'cause...
We are all like snowflakes...
<accepts Oscar for best sappy performance>
"Haha, don't be ridiculous! They're out to get EVERYONE, not just you."