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>>The things he taught are found at the heart of virtually every great religion<<

"Exactly. It was the same message. He taught nothing original. Nothing came from him that tells me only he could have come up with it. Everything he said, you can find somewhere else from an earlier period. It's smoke & mirrors."


Of COURSE it was the same message! LOL! What did you expect?

Look, if there IS a spiritual truth behind life at all....and I say there is...then the same message WILL come across in all great spiritual teachings, won't it? If they are accurate. Like, Duh!!!

If it's true that 2 x 2 = 4, are you gonna change it in order to be "original"???? I don't think so.

All true spiritual teachers teach the same basic truths and lay down the same basic fundamentals, because that is what their intelligence would naturally lead them to do. Ever hear the expression: "Great minds think alike?" The strongest evidence supporting the validity of spiritual teachings all over the world is that they DO agree on fundamental morality and stuff like that.

How could they not? Would reason not also lead to many people arriving at the same conclusion about something???

I mean, really...just be fair, think about it, and tell me how it could NOT happen that way.

If something is true, many will discover it by their own perception. If it's false, many will discount it soon enough.

Spirituality is about being strong enough to do what is obviously the best thing to do...from EVERYONE's point of view...not just from YOUR point of view.

We all know these things in our hearts. We know we shouldn't lie, steal, hurt, etc...but we yield to pressure and weakness and we make excuses for ourselves. Basic morality is dead obvious to anyone who has a scrap of empathy in his heart for other living creatures.