I've seen Jesus referred to as Jeebus and Jeezus.

[Yo_Mama]

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Missed a few bits of religious history there! I'm rolling on the floor laughing.

There seems to be a relatively fixed incidence of insanity in the human race. So the same mental disorders that will make an American decide that he/she is the reincarnation of Napoleon, or Jesus will make someone from a different culture decide that he/she is a reincarnation of Buddha or Shiva or whatever.

The Japanese syncretist cult of Aum Shinrikyo is one example of insanity in action:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo

Sri Lanka has seen Tamil/Buddhist violence on a wide scale over the last few years:
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/slrv.htm

Any human ideology can be used to justify destructive acts, and the most idealistic religions/ideologies seem to generate truly horrific violence once the justification emerges.

Then you get the pure oddities, such as the Shingon monks:
http://sonic.net/~anomaly/japan/dbuddha.htm

There's a long history of Buddhist conflicts between monasteries, and by conflicts, I mean fights. In Tibet and other places.

In 1998 there was a Buddhist monk knock-down fight for control of the gang, er, I mean order in South Korea:
http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/92/70/91_4_m.html

Tibetan Buddhism is an interesting case:
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html

For hundreds of years competing Tibetan Buddhist sects engaged in bitterly violent clashes and summary executions. In 1660, the 5th Dalai Lama was faced with a rebellion in Tsang province, the stronghold of the rival Kagyu sect with its high lama known as the Karmapa. The 5th Dalai Lama called for harsh retribution against the rebels, directing the Mongol army to obliterate the male and female lines, and the offspring too “like eggs smashed against rocks…. In short, annihilate any traces of them, even their names.” 7

In 1792, many Kagyu monasteries were confiscated and their monks were forcibly converted to the Gelug sect (the Dalai Lama’s denomination). The Gelug school, known also as the “Yellow Hats,” showed little tolerance or willingness to mix their teachings with other Buddhist sects. In the words of one of their traditional prayers: “Praise to you, violent god of the Yellow Hat teachings/who reduces to particles of dust/ great beings, high officials and ordinary people/ who pollute and corrupt the Gelug doctrine.” 8 An eighteenth-century memoir of a Tibetan general depicts sectarian strife among Buddhists that is as brutal and bloody as any religious conflict might be. 9 This grim history remains largely unvisited by present-day followers of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.

Then you have the whole Zen-Shinto Buddhist syncretism in Japan, which evolved into a practice that strongly supported what was essentially a crusade in Asia.

I don't think Buddhism is any better than most world religions in practice, although when one looks at the horrific death toll of Communist ideologies in the last century, it doesn't look bad.