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∙ 14y agoA brief comparison -
Christians:
* Have a deity * See mankind as needing divine intervention to be "good" * Are rewarded or punished eternally fo their deeds * Live only one life * Seek intervention from their deity * Have rules, but not injunctions, for killing Buddhists:
* Have no deity
* See enlightenment as an achieveent that individuals reach on their own * Reach Nirvana eventually * Are reincarnated * Have no divine intervention in their lives * HAve a suggested path to follow for proper behavior
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∙ 9y agoAfter the fact that they both have organization names that start with "B" and both have position that it's better to be good than bad, there isn't much commonality. As examples:
- Baptist have a god, Buddhists don't
- Baptists are a Abrahamic religion Buddhists are a Dravidian religion
- Baptists need guidance from their god on how to be good, Buddhists have e the Eightfold path that suggests ways of having a more skillful life, but it's not compulsory
- Buddhists have to find their own way to perfection and enlightenment. baptists feel they have to be led to salvation
- Baptists can sin, Buddhists don't have that concept
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