I don't want to insult you by implying that you are ignorant as you did to me. Let me just say this, I am very well read on both subjects. Religious studies is the obsession of my life. In fact I am married to a woman who is a professor of comparative religious studies because she was one of the very few people I could have a decent conversation with about these subjects. I don't want to spend the whole night looking up references to prove something to you. I would invite you to study the similarities between the teachings of these two masters. I have a feeling that you wont. If you sounded a bit less hostile and even remotely willing to learn, I would have walked you through it point-by-point.

I was once just as sure as you are that they were totally different messages. I probably would have gotten angry just like you if those assumptions were challenged. I understand there are massive differences between how the religions that they spawned operate and the official Dogma of those bodies.

I will leave you with just one book that makes my argument in a simple and concise way. You can choose whether you would like to investigate it yourself or not.

I'm not implying I'm smarter than you. I simply had the right person come along, at the right time and show me the similarities. He recommended some books. I read them and now it's impossible for me not to recognize. It's hard to see through all the noise that surrounds both of these religions especially Christianity. you have to remember that their own followers can't even agree on what they really were trying to say.

I guess the choice will hinge on whether your desire for knowledge is greater than your desire to be right.

Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings (Seastone) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1569751692/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_qQq-BbZC87AP9

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Jesus offers many teaching that people consider to be very beautiful including atheists. Thomas Jefferson believed his teaching to be the most moral ever taught and created the Jefferson Bible which took out all mention of miracles and just left in the wisdom. Jesus got rid of the notion that one race is superior to another, that it is the transformation of the heart that matters not blind obedience to rituals (The sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath....it is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him but what comes out of it, etc...), and emphasized that spiritual wealth is the most valuable wealth that one can accumulate. Judaism and Islam have food laws, rituals and Judaism believes in a Superior Race. Hindus also have food laws, and believe in three levels of the Superior Race with the fourth level there to serve the first three (the "twice born.").

This is what Jesus can offer that other religions dont. The catch is two fold.

Christians focus on the life and death of Jesus not his actual teachings. The path to salvation is through faith not works.
The Buddha said all the same things as Jesus but in more detail and disregarded blind faith as one of the things that keep you trapped in suffering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Buddha-Parallel-Sayings-Seastone/dp/1569751692

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