If a man walked up to YoU in the Street (62)

no it is not a faith
You might like to reflect on the 500,000 children that are said to have died in direct consequence of the 10 year embargo on food and medicine compliments of Christian John and co who implemented sanctions in the name of all Australia.
There is an area with little difference between other faith based thoughts like those practiced in Iran, Israel and the likes, who also constantly engage in violence.
Sounds to me like a lot on here are quite incapable of rational thought, people that think others should just shut up and say nothing while millions are constantly being killed by the flawed thought process that constantly leads to violence, repeatedly leads to violence, an utterly flawed teaching that constantly causes harm to others...
If you studied Buddhism then you might be in a position to judge for your self, mean while i am raising concerns about senseless activities that are still ongoing which most people best as i can tell are complicit in the violence by staying silent while your servants are allowing continuance of the ongoing stupidity

yes John Howard an Anglican the likes of Tony Abbott, Peter Reith, Alex Downer and others apparently respect and still to this day promote there dishonest half truths about Iraq and the reasons they would have everyone else believe for ongoing conflict in your name

I remember that there was this certain Jew named Jesus. He was persecuted by the religious of his day because he taught that God was freely accessible and wanting relationship with everybody outside of religion. He taught that the people were not under the power of the religious leadership of his country and time. For this, they killed him.

Look at where Anglican religion came from.... someone not liking the religion of the day (Catholicism) and setting up a new religion of their own. This is not faith in God, it is selfishness and self-centredness, and the desire to justify rebelion in the heart.

These leaders and many others might think that they are Christians, but this term was a derisive term used almost as a contemptuous insult by those who first used it.

Religion never has had anything to do with love, care or living in relationship with the creator.... so please don't judge the creator by these sort of people....

saying i don't believe in some countries can cost ones life

a one creator or one god is an impossibility, others have a right to belief think whatever they like, but don't think i will disregard years of careful contemplation on emptiness for the grasping emotional minds from someone who has been to bone lazy to check up for themselves what other people interpret as reality. I freely admit i am only a student trying to comprehend the Buddha Dharma and have only been doing so since about 1982.
Records of Buddhism date back something like 23,000 years, not three thousand, or put another way round a mere 28 generations ago, when a carpenter was wandering around trying to share well meaning thoughts.

Grasping onto a solid self just leads to more and more suffering

the Buddha that we talk about today - Shakyamuni Buddha - was not the first Buddha according to the Pali Canon (The Buddhist Scriptures).

Depending on what source you look at, it is said there were anywhere between six and 28 earlier Buddha's.

i don't mind that you have your own views, my most recent post was not responding to you earlier post, i was just sharing my own thoughts

If you think your an all knowing one then good you must be supper cleaver