I'm a little late to this party, but I thought I would post anyway :)

From the post: “Christianity was the only Religion about Love”. Really? Really? Have you explored any other religions? My personal experience with other, non-Christian religions is they really are about love."

I understand and appreciate your perspective here Bronwen :) But actually I do have to say that the speaker who said this wasn't too far off, given this quote (I don't know the rest of what he said). It really boils down to how that religion defines love.

Jesus defined love by going to a cross, to show just how much God loves us and how unconditionally He loves us - without the need for us to make atonement. If you look closely at the system of Karma, however, you realise just how short it actually falls in forming a healthy relationship with God or a healthy relationship with ourselves. I can't see Karma as anything close to love; it's a system, a machine, that we must try and manipulate to find salvation. (I'm using Western terms for ease of understanding.)

Because Karma is all about you, as a person, finding a way to atone for your sins so that you can eventually escape this life and enter Nirvana. We are reborn in many lives so that we may eventually atone for our bad deeds by offsetting it with good deeds. 

Jesus makes things different because the relational aspect becomes central - as Romans 3 says, a righteousness has now been revealed as apart from the law. That 'righteousness of God' is grace, not law, not Karma, no longer Torah, but grace and mercy and peace and love and communion and union and joy and mystery. 

Karma offers no love, only deeds. At its core it offers no grace - you either win or you lose. And you have to work very hard to win.

Secondly, knowing people who live in Buddhist nations, they have seen some horrific things in the name of 'love'. Because very often the way we 'atone' (I use that word simply for ease of understanding) for our bad deeds in the system of Karma is by going through suffering. In other words, the suffering we see in the world is seen as Karma putting things right, and therefore we must go through suffering in this life to have a better life in the next. So, in an orphanage they found the caretakers were abusing the children and claimed that this was done 'in love' because if they caused these poor orphans to suffer even more in this life, then the orphans would have a better next life.

You can understand the logic. But I juxtapose that against Jesus and I see two very different kinds of love operating. I put Jesus next to Karma and I see a very different kind of love operating.

I know many buddhists would disagree with the way I've outlined this idea above, but that's OK. Much like Christians, many Buddhists no doubt have their own way of processing and understanding the teaching. 

I like how CS Lewis worked this topic out. Rather than thinking Christianity as completely and utterly different and exclusive, he calls it a more 'mature' view. He takes the idea that in every religion there is some truth, but in Christianity all the Truth comes together in a much more mature understanding, because all Truth points to Jesus Christ, the person. This means we needn't be unloving towards people of other faiths and we can learn from them, but as long as we don't lose sight of Jesus as central and the climax of all journeys towards God. The person of Jesus is salvation, not the system of teaching that goes around Him (Christianity, or Christendom).

The way you've interpreted Jesus saying "I AM the way, truth and life" I think misses the glorious point of Jesus, the person, being the way, the truth and the life. To relegate it to simply his way of life and teaching is to put oneself back under a religious system rather than a religious (devoted) relationship. Ironically, doing this probably does the very opposite I think you're trying to achieve. 

Jesus shows us who God is and opens it up for us to commune with this God. Karma, however, does not show us who God is. Karma is a kind of justice system that falls short of God's righteousness, which is grace and peace and mercy and sacrificial love. 

I hope I don't come across as disrespectful here, but I did feel it would be good to bring these points up. Grace and peace.