[Replying to 'What's to distinguish Jesus Christ from, say, Buddha?']
The fact that Jesus is real and Buddha is not.
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I suppose they've gone and redefined 'real' again.
Probably using words like transcendence and absolute.
And they still lose.
Quick survey: Would you rather lose your individual being or become a brainwashed slave? Explain in one to five sentences.
I'd rather lose individual being, because the right to freely think resonates what the true meaning of freedom is.
You mean Prince Siddhartha Gautama was never born? Not even in the year 563 BC? And he didn't live for eighty years, marrying Princess Yasodhara and fathering a son named Rahula?
Damn, you just can't trust the Nepalese to tell you the truth about ANYTHING anymore! And if I can't trust anything a Nepalese person tells me, then I just don't know what's real anymore!
To be fair, I should mention that reports about Siddhartha Gautama were also compiled in writing long after his life, and until then we only have oral traditions.
As far as I know, there is astonishingly few (nearly none) other historical evidence for the real existence of Siddhartha Gautama. The same for Jesus.
Under these cirumstances, it is legitimate to doubt the historical existence of Buddha. As it is legitimate to doubt the historical existence of Jesus.
Both persons are first and foremost the main subject of certain religious traditions (= fictional stories).
Even when Jesus or Buddha had existed: The religious stories describing their life surely have nearly nothing in common with the real life of these two persons (should they have existed)
I think that both figures probably based around real people, but the characters as they are depicted in scriptures are probably so vastly different from the people that said characters were based upon that the people these characters were based upon wouldn't even recognize said character as themselves. Other than that . . . yeah, basically everything Anon2 said . . .
Oh, yeah, and I can think of plenty of things to distinguish Christ from the Buddha:
-Christ lived in Palestine, the Buddha lived in India
There are lots of differences between Jesus Christ and the Buddha. There is plenty to distinguish Christ from the Buddha. (I haven't even started to mention their teachings . . . mostly because I'm not a Buddhist. I'm already worried that I screwed something up in the above list.) However, for all these differences, for all these valid distinctions between the two, their "realness" is not one of them.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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