Heyo
Veteran Member
As soon as two people would live their lives according to WWJD, you'd have a fight at hand. (Both stating "I am the only way to salvation.")
Get out the popcorn, it's fight night.
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Get out the popcorn, it's fight night.
https://www.paradigmmpc.com/Assets/PDF/OtherSheep_ChrisVisitAsia.pdf
Lists 22 similarities between Jesus and Buddha.
So blame Buddha?
Scott C.
Just one guy
If everyone did what Jesus wanted
1- Everyone would plan ahead and work hard.
2- There would be no crime. No need for a police department.
3- There would be no poor through a combination of personal hardwork and voluntary donations from those who have more. No need for any type of government welfare.
4- Nobody would start a war. No need for the military.
5- No sex out of marriage, so no unwanted pregnacy, so no abortion. No need for laws to regulate any of this.
6- No kids without parents, who love and care for them. In the case of death or unfortunate circumstances a family member would step in.
7- No divorce because nobody would do anything bad enough to make the other party seek a divorce.
8- No violence in society. No fights.
9 - No pride. No greed. No selfishness. Everyone would care about and for one another. No governement regulation needed. All done out of Christian goodwill.
10. No revenge, Forgiveness instead.
11. No racism.
12. No oppresion of human rights. Free speech. Freedom to worship.
13. The right to bare arms would be moot. No need to have a gun for protection, except from wild animals. No complaints about who can or should own a gun. All would be for hunting or sport. No need to arm yourself for protection.
14. No jails or prisons.
15. No broken homes and none of the negaitve fallout.
16. There's a lot more, but I don't want to keep writing.
Audie
Veteran Member
https://www.paradigmmpc.com/Assets/PDF/OtherSheep_ChrisVisitAsia.pdf
Lists 22 similarities between Jesus and Buddha.
So blame Buddha?
I don't get your point
Just saying, maybe Buddism screwed up China.
Christianity has been around for 2000+ years and it has not happened yet. "What Jesus would do" is hypothetical, more than a bit naive, and there is a lot more to the Bible that makes things difficult for doing "what Jesus would do," and hundreds of churches disagree.
Also, If everyone did "what Buddha would do," the world would be a better place.
The reality of China up to the MAO Revolution was Confucian and to a degree Taoist, and Confucianism remains the dominant influence on the family and community level. Buddhism is the third wheel in China and did not influence Chinese history.
Audie
Veteran Member
Nah, all I did was give one example of poor rural society.
Anyone living that way wants to get away from it.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Didn't improve the first time so no, society would remain as it is.
I was really mocking the idea that Jesus and Buddha were the same fellow.
Just a weird link. I shouldn't expect people to waste time on a silly link.
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
Hmmmmm. Does Jesus prefer chocolate or berry?
Will he let me sell my daughter like the Torah says?
And he says nothing against slavery, and Paul takes slavery for granted, right?
This thing about, if you don't like someone's business, you can trash their counters, chase 'em down the street with a whip, and go back and wipe their credit card and stock records, that was Jesus, right?
And not a jot, not a coffee stain, of the Law will be changed till everything's accomplished, so no contact with menstruating women, no shaving of beards, put to death kids who razz their parents, not to mention all the witches, all of that. right?
I'm skeptical, myself.
And anyway, if you're in the US, now Donald's gone it won't get past the Senate.
If the world obeyed Christ, we would have paradise on earth in my humble opinion.
PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
Yes, certainly Venezuela is a much better place these days now that the
money lenders are gone.
But God, by definition, is conservative. God isn't going to support feminism
one day, then Trans Rights the next, then shift over to Polygamy when it
becomes fashionable.
PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
So if this was Britain 1939 would you have declared war on Germany for invading Poland?
Would you support Britain's war effort, or seek to stop it?
Would you invite Hitler's overtures of peace?
Would you have handed Britain's Jews over to Hitler, for the sake of peace?
PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
So with all 'Christian' nations pacifist, what would you do if the Soviet Union
or the Muslim nations attacked?
Pacifism is fine in theory, but only if your opponent is also a pacifist, otherwise
he owns your country, and you.
PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
Yes and no. There would no conflict, but there would no light bulbs either.
PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
Actually, the fig tree was symbolic. It represented the Jewish nation.
After Jesus the Jews lost their temple, Jerusalem and finally all of
Israel itself. Only now are they allowed to return.
PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
yeah, but it's the OTHER HALF OF CHINA we need to be wary of.
A truly Christian society would be both a welcoming and safe society,
and poor and ignorant too.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Ha, the old Venezuela line again; the right wing never compare to the Scandinavian countries or New Zealand; they just keep bringing up Fox's bogey man.
Read/watch another source of news.