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For example, comparing Buddhism and Christianity...

Buddhism Christianity
an-atta -"the doctrine that we are made of strands (skandhas) of impersonal consciousness woven together by causal necessity." (Kreeft, 1988) body, soul and spirit -people are made of material and non-material components. At least a dualist position.
agnostic - silent about God theistic -affirms God
karuna - impersonal universal feeling of compassion agape -willful and self-sacrificial love, more than compassion
Dharma - the four noble truths
-all life is dukkha (suffering)
-cause is tanha (grasping, selfish desire)
-treatment- extinguish desire
-method- eightfold path of ego-reduction
Christianity's four noble truths
death
sin
messiah
grace

   

Configuring...

   
   

Various Configurations of "Four Noble Truths" as Comparisons

Marx
poverty and oppression (problem)
capitalistic class conflict (cause)
communism (solution)
revolution (method)
Plato
vice (problem)
ignorance (cause)
virtue (solution)
knowledge (method)
Psychotherapy
symptom (problem)
abnormality (cause)
intervention (solution)
prescription (method)
Naturalism
struggle (problem)
environment (cause)
survival of the fit (solution)
selection (method)
Postmodernism
relativity and chaos (problem)
loss of truth (cause)
pragmatism (solution)
construct a story (method)
Existentialism
hopelessness (problem)
absence of meaning (cause)
made up meanings (solution)
choice- "let's get on with it" Sartre (method)
Buddhism
suffering (problem)
grasping, selfish desire (cause)
extinguish desire (solution)
eightfold path of ego-reduction (method)
Christianity
suffering and death (problem)
sin (cause)
messiah (solution)
grace (method)
Humanist?
blockage (problem)
environment (cause)
innate natural growth (solution)
remove cognitive & social barriers (method)
Islam
day of judgment (problem)
bad choices (cause)
obedience (solution)
Qur'an (method)
Hinduism
life problems (problem)
illusion (cause)
enlightenment (solution)
yoga / mysticism (method)
Eigenwelt
non-OMNIs (problem)
fundamental ontology (cause)
assert self-priority (solution)
work, woo, make, lie, manipulate, take
Spiritism
problems (problem)
disharmony (cause)
harmony with spirits and nature (solution)
Shaman (method)
Other
  (problem)
  (cause)
  (solution)
  (method)