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Einstein on Buddhism

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense of arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. . . Buddhism answers this description. . . If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."

On Whose Authority?

Do not accept what I have said to you because it has been so said in the past;

Do not accept it because it has been handed down by tradition;

Do not accept it because it also in the holy scriptures;

Do not accept it because it can be proved by inference;

Do not accept it because it is said by a famous or holy monk.

But if you find that it appeals to your sense of discrimination and conscience as being conducive to your benefit and happiness, then accept it and live up to it."

COMPARISONS BETWEEN BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY

The Buddha was a Hindu who founded a new world religion
Jesus was a Jew whose religious movement also led to a new world religion.
Both Buddhism and Christianity were missionary religions.
Both Jesus and the Buddha preached a Gospel of Weak Belief (see link).
Both the Buddha and Jesus were later deified by their disciples.
Buddhism and Christianity are egalitarian and nonesoteric.

Contrasts between Buddhism and Christianity

Buddhism is humanistic and nontheistic. Humanism here defined as a belief that humans can be moral and reach spiritual liberation on their own powers.

The Buddha was a philosopher and master dialectician of historic proportions.

Buddhism’s spiritual focus is internal rather than external.

Jesus more feminist than the Buddha.

Jesus did not believe in reincarnation.

Jesus believed in a creator God who brings one single world history to an end in the Last Judgment, while the Buddha believes that the world is eternal and that the gods play no role in human salvation.