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In many expressions of Buddhism, one can be a Buddhist and be a Christian, but in most expressions of Christianity one cannot be both a Christian and a Buddhist.

Christianity and Islam are dogmatic in ways that are alien to Buddhism, and they are dogmatic about things Buddhism cannot be dogmatic about. I've said before that Buddhism can tolerate its adherents being Christian, but Christianity cannot tolerate its adherents being Buddhist -- however, that's not exactly true. The whole worldview, the whole approach of Christianity, and especially Western Christianity, is incompatible with Buddhism. The devil is not just in the details; the ways of being religious don't mesh. Most Christianities are too relentlessly cataphatic and too arrogantly dogmatic to find much common ground with Buddhism.

I have said, when I was Orthodox, that Eastern Orthodoxy was closer to Buddhism than to Western Christianity, and I rarely met with any contradiction from other Orthodox. But I still heard Buddhists characterized as idolators, as worshipers of demons, and so on. Eastern Christianity is more apophatic and less self-assuredly dogmatic than Western Christianity, but it is still dogmatic. When a Christian movement lets go of dogma, and starts defining itself in terms of way of life rather than in terms of belief, it becomes a post-Christian movement.