If Jesus came back today, which religion would he most identify with?

[mswas]

@devilsknew

Jesus probably has more in common with the aescetic, like Buddha, in practice than your average Christian.

This is a terrible fallacy. Ascetism is not limited to Buddhism. Buddhism is a specific practice, one that is actually anathema to Christianity. One can be a Christian Ascetic or a Buddhist Ascetic and have commonalities, but that doesn’t mean anything relative to their respective religions. Seeking the cessation of desire, and seeking to align your desire with divine love are at cross purposes.

I don’t think you have much of a practical understanding of Buddhism. Buddhism achieves much by the eightfold path which is not unlike Jesus’ practice. In fact Buddhist thought and tenants very likely influenced Jesus, with its preexistence to his campaign.

Your view is very results oriented, not process oriented. Christianity is process oriented, not results oriented.

You mean the Christianity that in practice communes with the dead through a cannabilistic ritual and Deifies a crucified body, and blindly follows a religous terrorist?

Yeah, this last bit is a meaningless triviality. We’re talking about a specific idea, not your own personal bigotry.

[devilsknew]

@mswas

This is a terrible fallacy. Ascetism is not limited to Buddhism. Buddhism is a specific practice, one that is actually anathema to Christianity. One can be a Christian Ascetic or a Buddhist Ascetic and have commonalities, but that doesn’t mean anything relative to their respective religions. Seeking the cessation of desire, and seeking to align your desire with divine love are at cross purposes.

Nibbbana~Divine Love
You say potatoe’, I say po’tatoe.
I see, there is only one path to the divine. I can’t really argue with someone who misses the horizon for the view out the back door.

@mswas

Your view is very results oriented, not process oriented. Christianity is process oriented, not results oriented.

Whole processes involved… eight of them.

@devilsknew

You mean the Christianity that in practice communes with the dead through a cannabilistic ritual and Deifies a crucified body, and blindly follows a religous terrorist?

@mswas

Yeah, this last bit is a meaningless triviality. We’re talking about a specific idea, not your own personal bigotry.

That was not meant sarcastically or from bigotry. They are facts, unbiased facts-

1. The universal symbology of Christianity is Communion (eating the flesh, drinking the blood of the dead and crucified savior)

2. Deificatrion and assumption in the Christ’s death and equivocacy and succession to Yahweh, represented by the crucifix, (Christianity’s universal physical symbol, often including Christ’s dead body.)

3. Blind allegiance to his symbol as faith…belief without evidence.

4. Hi, Opal!