Hindu/Christian similarities

The Indian Cowboy has a post up on the similarities between various Christian ideas and their counterparts in Hindu beliefs:

4. The rapture is again an idea first seen in Hindu mythology.
Kalki has yet to arrive. This is probably a good thing, since when he does so, the Earth will not be a nice place. He will make war–just war. He will cleanse the sins from this earth and take into his kingdom those who are worthy. This next quote is from Revelations, but it was just as I’d been raised to envision the Maha Avatar:

I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns [diadems]. He has a name written on him that no one but he himself knows. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

Kalkin has been depicted since well before the birth of Christ in just such a fashion. The Rapture, the second coming. Even the flaming sword Gabriel wields as Azrael is eerily similar to the comet that Kalki has appropriated for a similar purpose.