After reading through all of these posts, I'd like to add something to my original one.
I think the reason why some of us (Christians) do feel "out-of-sorts" at times (be it unwelcome, critcized too harshly, whatever) around here is because a good portion of the Christians on this board are quite liberal/scholarly/progressive in their thought regarding their religion, and yet we seemed to all get lumped in with the "crazy Fundies" the minute we reveal that we are Christian.
Abaya, as for combining Buddhism and Christianity: I have been practicing both for over a year now alongside one another. I find that true Buddhist ideals go perfectly with modern Christian practice. Furthermore, because in most forms of Buddhism there is no god (even in Pureland, there's only Amida, and he's a teacher, not a god), it really doesn't go against any Christian ideal/law/what-have-you. If anything, I've found Buddhism to be a great expansion of Christ's way--I would recommend the Diamond Sutra for reading
