The Drum of Immortality: Compassion of Buddha, Christ and Compassionate Conservatives
by Hugh Fincher
Category: Philosophy

If you or your readers/customers are interested in the topic of peace and an interfaith approach to understanding the deepest questions of human nature, then this book will be a vital addition to your collection. Why? Because nowhere else can you find the ancient truths Buddha and Christ gave their lives to proclaim so well documented ? presented in their original eloquent simplicity ? from the most authentic sources. The joint message of the two greatest leaders of mankind ? how to find the eternal through earthly compassion ? is as true today as when they first expressed it. Originally published in 1998, this second edition explains why the author considers the morality of Compassionate Conservatives, who identify themselves as Christians, far different from the compassion lived and taught by Buddha and Christ. Along with the author?s two previous books ? Warlord! Goodbye! and Superpower America: How the Military Industrial Complex Defeated the American People? this book is an effort to, as the author explains,?warn the American people that we are in as great a danger from the misuse of the lives of our brave U.S. Armed Forces today as we were when our young soldiers were under attack from the armies of Germany and Japan in 1941.? The Drum of Immortality is unique in that it presents the text of Buddha and Christ?s words side-by-side for easy comparison. The author, the son of a minister, is a veteran of World War II and a former U.S.A. I.D. Foreign Service officer who lived for many years in India, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. He became close friends with Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists, visited their temples, read their Holy Scriptures and discussed their beliefs with them. As a result, he compared the messages of Buddha and Christ and found them to be so similar as to be called identical for all practical purposes.