Buddha and Jesus: A Comparison

"...nothing now remains for the honest man to do but acknowledge the truth, which is that the history of Jesus of Nazareth[,] as related in the books of the New Testament, is simply a copy of that of Buddha, with a mixture of mythology borrowed from other nations."
~T. W. Doane, (Warren)
Is it true? Could it be that the founder of the world's largest religion, a major prophet of another major religion, and self-proclaimed Son of God is nothing more than a Jewified compendium of stories about a man from India? Why would anyone think so? This paper is an attempt to point out the similarit…