Perspicuo

I find it incredibly ironic that someone espousing "Jesus Christ's true message" can be so skeptical about Gautama Buddha.

Or am I the only one?

No Robots

And I find the converse quite ironic: the iron-willed Jesus mythers turn all dewy-eyed and credulous when it comes to Buddha. It makes one suspect there's some kind of hidden agenda here that precludes the accurate reading of the literature.

spin

I have to invent a word called overgeneralizationism, describing a disease seen lurking around this forum.

Von Bek

I believe both the Buddha and Jesus were historical figures.

Tom Sawyer

Of course Buddha was real. I've seen statues of him. You can't make statues of people who weren't real.

Kapyong

Gday,

Oh please.

Suspect claims and preaching from 3 centuries later are NOT "archeological evidence" for Buddha.


Kapyong

Kapyong

Gday all,

Here is quick list for comparison, based purely on my opinions :

Adam, Noah : certainly myth
Abraham : almost certainly a myth
Jesus : probably a myth

Hercules, Aesculapius, Dionysus, Apollo et al : all myths
Lao Tzu : almost certainly a myth
Krishna : almost certainly a myth
Buddha : probably a myth

Mohamed : almost certainly historical


Kapyong

stephan huller

It should be noted that there are reputable scholars who argue that there is no evidence for the historical existence of Mohammed. I don't necessarily agree with them. However, just for the record ...

avi

Ok, so then, do you have a reference to the camel drivers' theft of the loot transported by caravan from Istanbul, at the terminus of the silk route, to Medina (or Mecca)?

Lao Zi, whose name you have misspelled, was not a myth, he was a government official, living roughly at the same time as Siddhartha, and a contemporary of KongZi, known in the west as Confucius. There are some ancient sources in ZG (ZhongGuo, aka China) which claim that KongZi and LaoZi met and discussed various subjects.... (a stele is a stone slab)
Gosh, I wonder if there are also disreputable "scholars", who rob graves, and commit theft, and forgery, and nevertheless continue to hold prestigious positions at various universities.....?

avi

mountainman

Suspect claims and preaching from 3 centuries later seem to be still working very very well for [the (supposed) birth of] Jesus.

The vacuum of evidence for pre-4th century Christianity