The foundation of true Christian faith is to love God with your heart, mind and spirit, and to love your brothers and sister as yourself. The foundation of distorted Christianity is that the Lord Jesus is not only the Son of God, but God himself, and must be worshipped as God himself. And those who worship Jesus will go to heaven, and those who do not will go to hell. Farewell Abraham and Moses, farewell all the Buddhas, farewell Muhammad, farewell Mahatma Ghandi. The loving God of such 'Christians' condemns you to hell.

The mindless arrogance of these 'believers' who maintain that only they have an exclusive right to God, is beyond all comprehension, but it only serves to make them feel self-righteous. It is such ignorance that breed persecution, 'holy' wars, separations and other un-Christ-like behaviour. It is such latter-day who place their beliefs, rules and regulations above love for one another.

We know that, in general practice, Christians do not love one another. The hatred between Protestant and Catholic Christians extends far beyond the 'troubles' in Ireland; to say nothing about the Christian 'love' the Serbs and Croats feel for their Muslim brother and sisters in what used to be Yugoslavia.

The Christian church was split when the European Christian establishment outraged the Eastern Christian establishment by elevating Jesus to a party with God. This elevation did not start until about 400 A.D. It split again when a truly Christian Catholic monk, Martin Luther, protested against the mockery, the parody of Christianity into which the establishment had fallen.

True Christianity is not dependent on the taking of bread and wine; not dependent on songs of praise, not dependent on rites and rituals; nor is it dependent on any book, no matter how holy we believe that book to be. These are but the trappings of our institutes. This is not to day they do not serve a purpose and fulfil a need.

True Christianity is to be found in the heart; in seeking the god within. It depends on you becoming Christ-like in thought, word and deed.

True Buddhism is no different. It also is found in the heart; in seeking the True Self, the Dharmakaya (Source of all Life) within; in becoming Buddha-like in thought word and deed. Buddhists are taught to love all Beings as themselves.

That which we call 'God' is beyond name, form and any concept we may have of it. Many representatives of God have been sent into this minuscule physical world to remind mankind of its true and loving nature. All of them taught love and peace. Not one religion has accomplished that. We destroy each other on a scale that was inconceivable in earlier times.

Unless you yourself are Christ-like in thought, word and deed, you are a hypocrite to call yourself a Christian. The same principle applies to all religions. You must do it for yourself. "Atta hi attano Natho", warned the dying Buddha. "Your True Self is your only Lord." Sadhu!