There are some people who think they can blend Buddhist and Christian beliefs together. George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars once quipped, “I am a Methodist-Buddhist,” feeling that he could combine Christ’s teachings about love your neighbor with the Zen of Buddhist meditation. The problem is fundamentally, Buddhism and Christianity are diametrically opposite. I would even go as far as to say that Buddhism is the direct opposite of Christianity even more so than Satanism. The reason, is that Buddhism ultimately is about self. Yes, Buddhists claim especially in more mystical and traditional schools to be concerned with creation and others, but it all comes from the prism of building yourself up; your own enlightenment, at the end of the day, its about you being on The Eight Fold Path to destroy your suffering, while in contrast Christianity embraces suffering, “ Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces cha...
As Christians we are told to take responsibility for when we hurt another person. In specific when we sin against someone, we are to seek out forgiveness and reconciliation. Some of us agonize over if the choices we made did lasting damage to someone, and we often think of them saying, “this is all your fault!” In fact I am reminded of Burton’s Batman, “you made me and I made you,” exchange between Batman and the Joker. However, this is actually not true. Jack who became the Joker was already a vile man, and the Joker persona merely gave him gravitas to rise as kingpin. Batman made a choice, he chose to promise his parents he would fight the evil of Gotham as the Dark Knight to avenge their deaths, his parents did not do demand this of their son. At some point we have to come to the point that people own their own choices. Yes you maybe influenced by hurt from other people, and emotion, and it valid to say they share blame, much like verse, “What sorrow awaits the world, because ...