Christianity And Buddhism Compare And Contrast

Christianity and Buddhism spread both differently and the same. The two were the same because they both were a runoff of another religion. They both were open for people to convert from another religion, they both creators had their religion spread by their disciples after their death, and they both spread through trade and peaceful contact. A major difference was that Christianity and Hinduism originated from different places. Also Christianity spread through the downfall of the Roman Empire and later on through war and conquer. While Buddhism was always peaceful. To begin with, both religions when they were beginning to spread they allowed people from different religions to join theirs. The Christians had most Romans to convert to their religion and it would have never become the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Buddhists had the Chinese convert to their religion and had they not allowed anyone to convert to their religion it would have never reached China in …show more content…
Buddhism started in India and since everyone in India was already Hindu and weren’t going to convert the spread moved to China. While Christianity originated in Judea. In Judea Christianity was frowned upon so they moved their attempt to spread to the Roman Empire. Another difference between the spread of the two were that Christianity after a while spread violently and forcefully. The Christians would raid city’s and made everyone still alive after the city was conquered convert to Christianity convert or they were killed. In the beginning of Christianity it was only peaceful but as time passed it became more and more forceful and violent. While Buddhism was never forced upon at anytime. If you wanted to become Buddhist you could and if not they understood. People converted to Buddhism because they truly believed in what they were teaching and weren’t forced like later