WHAT IS GOD’S RELIGION ?
I recently met a retired Indian nuclear scientist in the U.S. The ex- scientist had set up a temple in a city in the US. He looked a typical ‘ swamiji’—flowing beard ,spotless dhoti and kurta, ability to effortlessly quote scriptures. I asked him what made him choose a life in a temple. What he told me shocked me.
‘God appeared in my dream’ he told me ‘ and asked me to set up a Vaishnavite temple’.
I am quite frankly scared of people who claim to talk to God or receive instructions from Him. I supect their sanity.
Take George Bush. He told the world that God asked him to attack Iraq ! It was apparent that this man is a vile despot. His deluded actions have cost countless innocent lives. Subsequent events bear us out.
Rev. .Rod Parsely an Evangelist in the US shocked many when he said ‘Islam is a false religion and God has told America to destroy it’.
I was under the impression that the only point on which Christianity and Islam agreed was that Hinduism was a false religion !
Jesus is reported to have said that he had not come to replace any Prophet. . He was only completing their unfinished job. Muslims believe that Jesus had left the job unfinished and the Prophet of Islam had completed it. Considering that according to one tradition there have been 125000 prophets it seems we are no clearer about God despite their exertions. Indeed I am still not convinced about even the existence of God..
What I notice is that we will kill anyone who does not agree with our limited understanding of God!
There is a story about a man who died and went to whatever place we go to when we are no more. He was resting under a tree when he saw a massive crowd following a saintly figure. He asked an old bearded figure sitting on a rock nearby what the crowd was about.
‘Oh that is Prophet Mohammed’s birthday and Muslims are following him.’
Sometime later they saw another crowd following another saintly looking person. When asked what the crowd was about the old bearded figure replied ‘it is the birthday of Jesus and millions of Christians are following him’
Later they saw another crowd and this time the bearded figure replied ‘It is Lord Krishna’s birthday and millions of Hindus are following him.’
At this point our dead friend’s curiosity was aroused. . He asked the bearded figure ‘how come you have all the answers? Just who are you ?”
‘I am God . Today is my birthday and nobody is bothered about me ‘he replied.
Coming to the title of this article—If God is all knowing then considering what we doing in his name he may well tell us that his religion is AThEISM.
Just consider this .Kerala is supposed to be God’s own country. This state is a communist stronghold.
K.R.RAVI
USA
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dear ravi,
god is an invention of man
for his security
to give him solace of collective identity..
true god is dead long live god....
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has assigned the task of tracking down and eliminating Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and other high-profile targets to an Army general who sees the war on terrorism as a clash between Judeo-Christian values and Satan.
. . . the former commander and 13-year veteran of the Army's top-secret Delta Force is also an outspoken evangelical Christian who appeared in dress uniform and polished jump boots before a religious group in Oregon in June to declare that radical Islamists hated the United States "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian ... and the enemy is a guy named Satan."
Discussing the battle against a Muslim warlord in Somalia, Boykin told another audience, "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."
"We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this," Boykin said last year.
On at least one occasion, in Sandy, Ore., in June, Boykin said of President Bush: "He's in the White House because God put him there."
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2003/1016-GodsArmy.html
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A few years ago the popular American Christian ministers Jerry Falwell called for a war against all the enemies of Israel and Fred Graham, Billy Graham's son, called for a war against all the nations of Islam (I guess that must include India).
-- GF
Now the USA is trying to decide who to invade next -- Iran, Pakistan, or both at once. I'm hoping that the Americans overextend themselves and get slaughtered and decimated somewhere soon.
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