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Old 07-12-2006, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
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The link is to an essay by Dorthy Figan of the Buddhist Publication Society that pretty much sums up what I've been told by religion and philosophy teachers about Buddhism. She also tends to agree that you can be Christian and not Buddhist. Since you're the expert, what about Buddhism prevents someone from being a Christian too??

Well Christians think Christ (Jesus) died for them on the cross to get everyone salvation and Buddha said that you must "work out for yourself your own salvation [enlightenment]" then I think those ideas are pretty incompatible.
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