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Originally Posted by valkyrie
Oh noes are we going there again? You cannot be Buddhist and Christian. You can be Christian and engage in certain Buddhist practices or agree with certain Buddhist philosophies, but you cannot be Christian and Buddhist.
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That's right, and here's why:
Jesus and the Buddha said a lot of stuff that goes hand in hand, and a lot of stuff that contridicts each other. With the "new age" movement going for a more Bahai'i type thing than a U/U type thing, the commonplace practice is to claim to be observing the truth of both religions or even to be both "christian and buddhist"
It doesn't work because jesus said "I am the way to salvation/enlightenement/freedom"
and meanwhile buddha said "work out for yourself your own salvation/enligtenment/liberation." In Buddhism you save your self. That is not the only difference but it does make them mutually exclusive.
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