英語で仏教！今回は、仏教とキリスト教の基本的な違いをお話ししてみました。
どちらも世界に広がりを持つ宗教ですが、両者には共通点があると同時に根本的な違いがあるようです。
そのあたりを英語と日本語で味わってみたいと思います。

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What is the fundamental difference between Buddhism and Christianity?
Christianity preaches the existence of a single absolute deity. Jesus Christ is that deity’s son and God manifests Himself in the human heart through Jesus.
This deity is the creator of all things and ruler of the universe. Jesus Christ teaches people to believe in God and accept his protection. “Ask and you shall be given,” he preached.

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In contrast, Buddhism denies all absolutes. It preaches that nothing is absolutely permanent and emphasizes the transformation and extinction of all things in the teaching of “impermanence” and the non-existence of a self that is eternally non-extinguishing in the teaching of “non-self.”
It explains the original nature of all things in the notion of “causation.” Everything is the result of particular cause and is bought about by certain supplementary conditions. Therefore, if that cause and condition change, it makes everything relative to the change.

In this way, Christianity emphasizes the existence of an absolute divinity, but Buddhism does not recognize the existence of any absolute. This is the fundamental difference between the two.