I couldn´t withhold this little gem from JMG´s Parsifal essay linked to in the previous blog post:
>>>It’s indicative of the difference we’re discussing that the salvation offered by Christ is confirmed to his believers by their faith that he returned from death, while the salvation offered by the Buddha is confirmed to his believers by their faith that everyone else returns from death but he did not and never will.
>>>It’s equally noteworthy that Christian teaching rests on the idea that each human being has an immortal soul that needs to be saved from damnation, while Buddhist teaching insists that the idea that any of us has an enduring self at all is the very source of our damnation.
>>>The two faiths are irreconcilable at levels deeper than most people, and even most theologians, are willing to go.
Noooo, I want harmonization so I can pretend that pluralism doesn´t really mean what it seems to mean...
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