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Some 1.8 years ago, I re-read Marcus Borg (ed.)'s "Jesus and Buddha", which bears the sub-title "The Parallel Sayings" (Berkeley, California: Ulysses Press, 1997). What benefits did I get from reading it?
Well, if nothing else, I have at least considered adopting -- in fact, did adopt, privately -- the label "non-exclusivist Christian" to describe myself to some non-Christians (aiyah!, my true-blue Christian friends will NEVER understand -- unless God does a miracle in their hearts), simply because it's a more expansive, more flexible and less insulting stance ... that is, if one needs a label or a stance!
Here's what Marcus Borg (editor) says in "Jesus and Buddha":
As a Christian, I have lived with Jesus all my life. I have not lived with the Buddha. In adulthood, I have become a non-exclusivist Christian. It seems clear that 'the sacred' has been known in all of the major religious traditions, and I do not think that Christianity is the only adequate religion, even though it is my 'home'."
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