Here, then, we pause to ask our good Christian reader, _Where is your
original Christianity now?_ or what constitutes the revealed religion
of Jesus Christ? or where is the evidence that any new religion was
revealed by him or preached by him, seeing we have all his religion, as
shown by the foregoing historical citations, included in an old heathen
system more than a thousand years old when Jesus Christ was born?
We find it all here in this old oriental system of Budhism--_every
essential part, particle and principle_ of it. We find Christianity all
here--its Alpha and Omega, its beginning and end. We find it here in
all its details,--its root, essence, and entity,--all its "revealed
doctrines," religious ideas, beautiful truths, senseless dogmas and
oriental phantoms. Not, a doctrine, principle, or precept of the
Christian system, but that is here proclaimed to the world ages before
"the angels announced the birth of a divine babe in Bethlehem." Will
you, then, persist in claiming that "truth, life, and immortality came
by Jesus Christ," and that "Christ came to preach a new gospel to the
world, and to set forth a new religion never before heard amongst men"
(to use the language of Archbishop Tillotson), when the historical facts
cited in this work demonstrate a hundred times over that such a position
is palpably erroneous? Will you still persist, with all those undeniable
facts staring you in the face (proving and reproving, with overwhelming
demonstration, that the statement is untrue), in declaring that "the
religion of Jesus Christ is the only true and soul-saving religion, and
all other systems are mere straw, stubble, tradition, and superstition"
(as asserted by a popular Christian writer), when no mathematician ever
demonstrated a scientific problem more clearly than we have proved in
these pages that all the principle systems of the past, by no means
excepting Christianity, are essentially alike in every important
particular--all of their cardinal doctrines being the same, differing
only in unimportant details?
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