[Conservative til I die]

God forbid accepting other religions as anything but blaspheme, especially those religions that preach peace and human dignity

Relax, Melvin. No one's calling Buddhism blasphemous. Simply stating that Buddhism and similar Eastern forms of thought are absolutely not compatible. Anyone who pretends they are is either looking at things very superficially or just wants to sound cool by shoehorning Christianity into the Buddhist mindset.

For any Christian - Catholic or otherwise - there are some serious problems if they feel they need to go to Buddha to augment their faith. Christ is more than sufficient.

[Lochlainnach]

..."there are some serious problems if they feel they need to go to Buddha to augment their faith. Christ is more than sufficient."

True, Melvin, you can't really be a Christian without believing in Christ as your savior. But Kennedy's lectures don't seem to be about accepting Buddha at the right hand of Christ. He's simply examining, far better than me, hopefully, the similarities between two of the world's most popular religions.