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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like quite a bit of what is attributed to him.  Love, kindness, compassion, helping the sick and poor, welcoming the stranger, forgiveness, living a simpler life serving others ……

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Sounds a lot like the Buddha to me.  But they were both so long ago, who knows?[/quote]I like the Buddha too[/quote]

We have significantly more, earlier, and diverse historical evidence for Jesus than for the Buddha.

Jesus: We have multiple independent sources (some hostile) within one generation, plus archaeological corroboration of key figures and places.

Buddha: We have one internal tradition written down centuries after his death, plus third-century BCE royal inscriptions that treat him as a known figure (roughly the same time-gap as Tacitus is to Jesus).

By every normal historical criterion—earliness, number of sources, independence, and hostile corroboration—Jesus has dramatically stronger and earlier attestation than the Buddha.

Most scholars accept both men existed, but if you demanded the same level of evidence for the Buddha that some skeptics demand for Jesus, the Buddha’s historicity would be far more uncertain.[/quote]

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