[Daffynition]

Sounds like a religious smackdown!

[Vaquero]

Please leave these people alone!

They don’t push their religion on anyone....go pick on the Muslims...they need some religion.

[Natchez Hawk]

Maybe Interserve USA should send their members over to win converts in Red China—heck of a lot more souls to be saved over there, I mean true Christians aren’t afraid of a llittle adversity are they?

[Mr. Jeeves]

If you're a Tibetan Buddhist or you're leaning that way, you may not know it, but you need Jesus.

It's the other way around - the massive, profit-driven, ego/mind cult that American Christianity has morphed into could take many lessons from the Dalai Lama and Buddhism. And Jesus, whose teachings echo Buddha's in many particulars, would agree.

[aruanan]

Evangelicals hope to 'reach' Buddhists

The good news of Buddhism: There is no God. People suffer because they desire. Desire enslaves one to the circle of existence, causing the rebirth of a set of tendencies to exist (not transmigration of a soul). Continued existence=continued desire=continued suffering.

Solution: train oneself to acquiesce to extinction without remainder. So, for example, if you happen to trip while going down stairs, you can just give up in midair and not try to save oneself and increase the likelihood of dying without the possibility of rebirth.

Problem: seeking after this acquiescence for the purpose of ending one's suffering is itself an example of grasping desire that keeps the whole thing going. Although advanced meditative techniques can be used to get around this, simply training oneself to give up when faced with life-threatening situations can be helpful because the habit of acquiescence can help you to encounter death without the desire to stay alive and, thus, break the chain of desire and existence.

This was all in a little Chick-tract-like booklet called "Extinction Without Remainder" given to me by an evangelical Buddhist friend from Thailand.

[Constitution Day]

Gunga galunga...gunga, gunga-galunga.

[aruanan]

"Most Buddhists would not have a problem with what is written in the gospel," said Nakai, who does not follow the particular practices of the Dalai Lama's sect. "It's what evangelical Christians say -- the idea that you have to be saved in a certain way or you're doomed to eternal damnation, that's what we have a problem with."

Ha ha ha, the same old canard. I guess Patti hasn't actually read the Bible. The gospel according the Jesus:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

[MBB1984]

Christ commanded his followers to preach the Gospel to all people. The Buddhists are not singled out. Christ made it clear that He is the only way to heaven and those who do not receive him as Savior will spend an eternity in Hell. That message has been the same for almost 2,000 years.

[Larry Lucido]

I once set up an evangelical hot dog stand in a Buddhist community. They kept asking me to make them one with everything.

When they asked for change, I said “change must come from within.”

I’ll be here all week.

[P-Marlowe]

If you're a Tibetan Buddhist or you're leaning that way, you may not know it, but you need Jesus.

Amen!

[Sensei Ern]

Isn’t Interserve the competing company in the movie Office Space that Innotech people went to work for after Innotech burnt to the ground?

[rabidralph]

the idea that you have to be saved in a certain way or you're doomed to eternal damnation, that's what we have a problem with.

Yes, you do have a problem.

[William Terrell]

Tibetan Buddhists may not be intelligent enough to be Christians. Mr. Lama recently praised Islam, even though he and his Buddhists are infidels, and the Koran is clear about what happens to infidels.

[MEGoody]

But my sense is that their goal is to try to convert to Christianity.

Uh, well Rev Stan, Jesus DID say to preach the gospel to all nations and make disciples of all men.

Rev, if you aren't involved in doing that, you are being disobedient.

[RightWhale]

It is possible to be Buddhist and Christian at the same time. They do not conflict; they hardly overlap.

[socrates_shoe]

Buddhists will happily talk with the Evangelicals and be entertained and maybe even a bit bemused by the Evangelicals’ deep desires.

Maybe, if heaven smiles, some of the Evangelicals may even start out on the path to enlightenment after.

No harm, no foul.

[JWinNC]

Wow... there are so many confused thoughts and ideas in the article.. where would one begin to unravel it?

Suffice it to say... many who think they understand Christ, don’t.

jw

[Central Scrutiniser]

Oh my.

Evangelicals, leave the Buddihists the hell alone.

Do unto others as they would do unto you and all that jazz.

Its not in their nature, but the Buddhists should kick the snake wavers asses.

[Psycho_Bunny]

lol....This is like a high school basketball team taking on 6-graders because they don't want to play against college students.

 

[Chaguito]

"Most Buddhists would not have a problem with what is written in the gospel,"

Then they haven't read the gospels.