Endnote 2 – Part II
This difference may reflect their different social classes: The Buddha was born into a wealthy ruling class, Jesus into an oppressed peasant class. As my colleague John Dominic Crossan has remarked, a passion for justice most commonly comes from the experience of injustice. A second factor is that Jesus stood in the tradition of Moses and the social prophets of Israel, all of them God-intoxicated voices of religious social protest.