Man Demands Refund After Seeing Buddha Imagery At Chinese Restaurant Because He's Christian

[beat.raven]

164. I'm a number of years...

....beyond my time as a scholar. But when I wuz, I conceived the notion, several have already mentioned above, that Jesus might have toured India a while before Rudyard Kipling and the Beatles. Lots of others before and smarter than me have realized the same possibility.

Hinduism predates Christianity by several thousand years and had a Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, long before Christianity came up with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Buddhism was also started there 500 years BCE, mas o menos, by a prince named Siddhartha Gautama who never claimed to be a god. He was made one by later converts to his teachings, and one Buddha not being enough for them they went on to invent other Buddhas, manifestations of him, to the point that Gautama is now known as the "historical" Buddha.

Gautama got let out of his palace at some point and found out that everybody didn't have his personal buttwiper and that some people were (gasp) poor. He famously went off and meditated about it under a tree and came up with lots of stuff similar to what Christ taught.

I've got no quarrel with Buddha's teachings or those of Jesus, but those lately who profess to be Christians display amazing ignorance of his teachings.