how do you spell religious superstition?
do the mud people ever like love the rain people?
do the mountain people every like the city people?
do lilliputians really know how god wants us to eat an egg?
enough to threaten to kill them for god?
religious superstition is the worse don't you think?
there is an element of racism in these remarks as well.
as the writer seems to be insisting that god is european,
and any one with a funny name is suspicious
and can't have enough faith to listen to.
like the only good indian is _____ indian
the guise this takes is false puffed up authority by an un-sympathic
writer.
the guise of this insulting post is also refusing to act as jesus asks
us to treat others,
to love all as we love ourselves. where is there love in this writers
post?
where is jesus reflected in this superstitious rant?
where is jesus in the life of this writer?
you can know alot about a topic and not understand the meaning.
it goes along with this writer previously calling people dogs by using
sacred text for insults.
constant drones of insults, mixed with death threats that our souls
are indanger of being murdered too.
jesus says do onto others as you would have them do........
so wait some day this writer will put christianity under the same
focus.
using the same techniques.
in love with the living gay jesus,
merlin
On May 1, 5:20=A0pm, Carl <sai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> There is no enlightenment offered in false teachings like Eckankar.
>
> Recently a character using the nick "Gopal Das" arrived on Usenet
> promoting the new age cult known as Eckankar (a cult founded by Paul
> Twitchell in the late 60's). Incidentally, in Twitchell's fictional
> writings "Gopal Das" was a "Living ECK Master" in 3000 B.C., in Egypt
> near Luxor. It seems that Twitchell, a hack writer and former
> Scientologist hired by L. Ron Hubbard personally to be in charge of
> selecting articles on Scientology submitted by pari****oners to be
> published in either Scientology publications or elsewhere as a
> testimony to the worth of Scientology, tried to emulate his mentor L.
> Ron Hubbard in creating his own religion to make money. Also Paul
> Twitchell has written in his fiction that chanting the name "Gopal"
> can actually trans****t one's inner, true self, i.e., Soul - to the
> Temple of Golden Wisdom, where one can hear Gopal Das give lectures.
>
> From Apologetics Index, here's a brief background into the Eckankar
> cult (http://www.apologeticsindex.org/e13.html):
>
> ECKANKAR
> A New Age religion founded by Paul Twitchell, who led the group from
> 1965-1971. He was followed by Darwin Gross (1971-1981), and Harold
> Klemp (1981-present). Leaders of Eckankar are called 'ECK Masters.'
>
> ECKANKAR was "born" (or brought into public view) in 1965. Its founder
> and formulator as Paul Twitchell ("Paulji"), who proclaimed himself
> the 971st Living Eck Master - the living oracle of God ("Sugmad") -
> the "Mahanta" for this age. Twitchell was a dabbler in things mystical
> and occult, a former Scientologist, initiate of the Kirpal Singh of
> the Ruhani Satsang branch of the Radhoasoami tradition on India, and
> excommunicated staffer of Swami Premananda's Self-Revelation Church of
> Absolute Monism, an offshoot of the Self-Realization Fellow****p.
>
> Sometime around 1960 Twitchell began to formulate the idea of founding
> his own religion.
> [...]
>
> Twitchell claimed that he did not borrow ideas from any human source,
> but experienced his own "God realization" in 1956 and was initiated by
> a group of spiritual masters called the "Order of Vairagi Masters" as
> the Living Eck Master in 1965. The exact nature of these extraordinary
> beings is left vague in Twitchell's writings, but they seem comparable
> to the "Ascended Masters" of Theosophical lore.
> [...]
>
> Twitchell claimed that ECKANKAR is the oldest and most original
> religion in the world. All other religions are derivative from it and
> in some sense inferior to it. Whatever truth is in them belongs to
> ECKANKAR. According to some careful scholars of Twitchell and
> ECKANKAR, however, the self-proclaimed Mahanta simply borrowed and
> reworked the cosmology and spirituality of the venerable Radhosoami
> tradition of India as mediated to him by Kirpal Singh and the American
> Radhosoami adept and writer, Dr. Julian Johnson. David Lane's expos=E9
> of Twitchell's dependence on these men (and others) is convincing.
> Source: ECKKANKAR: From Ancient Science of Soul Travel to New Age
> Religion, by Roger E. Olson, in America's Alternative Religions
> (Edited by Timothy Miller), State Univ of New York Press, July 1995,
> p. 363
>
> A member of the new age family of cults, Eckankar teaches a process
> which after a series of reincarnation culminates in a god existence,
> or Christ Consciousness.
>
> The process itself involves the adherent progressing upward through
> twelve astral planes through the attainment of classified levels of
> knowledge (gnosticism).
> Source: Eckankar by Watchman Fellow****p
>
> Beliefs
>
> Eckankar believes that God exists in two parts, the Light and Sound,
> known as ECK. This is held to be the sustaining force of all life and
> the equivalent of the Holy Spirit. Eckankar teaches that it is
> possible to experience the Light and Sound through the proper use of
> spiritual exercises.
>
> Spiritual exercise is im****tant as the initiator of Soul Travel and
> for achieving spiritual growth and a deeper appreciation for one's pas
> lives. A key spiritual exercise is the singing of the word hu, which
> is supposedly the name of God.
>
> Adherents believe in karma and reincarnation and hold that ECK helps
> to purify a person of karma. They emphasize a cooperative relation****p
> with God. Humans are considered a spark of God sent to earth to gain
> spiritual experience and to serve others.
> Source: Charts of Cults, Sects, & Religious Movements, H. Wayne House.
> Page 105
>
> ----------------
>
> Also, here are some URL's with useful information concerning this new
> age cult created by a person who basically emulated his mentor L. Ron
> Hubbard in creating his own religion in order to make money:
>
> The Center For Twitchellian
Plagarismhttp://vclass.mtsac.edu:930/phil/cent=
er.htm
> Although Twitchell claimed to not have borrowed ideas from any human
> source, research has discovered that many of his materials were
> plagarized. This site do***ents them.
>
> The Unauthorized Eckankar(tm) Pagehttp://www.geocities.com/eckcult/
> This website has useful info.
>
> SURVIVING THE CULT
ECKANKARhttp://www.angelfire.com/hi2/eckankarsurvivors/=
> Website created and maintained by ex-Eckankar victim. Also contains
> links to other related site worth checking out.
>
> THE MAKING OF A SPIRITUAL MOVEMENT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PAUL TWITCHELL
> AND ECKANKARhttp://www.geocities.com/eckcult/chapters/preface.html
> Online book (hard copies out of print) exposing Eckankar and founder/
> creator/plagarizer Paul Twitchell.
>
> On overview of the Eckankar culthttp://www.eaec.org/cults/eckankar.htm
>
> There are many more sources showing the unChristian nature of Eck****ar
> and the false, unBiblical teachings of the cult. They believe in a
> different god than Jehovah God of the Bible and deny essential
> Christian doctrine. Please take the time to educate yourself on this
> cult so you may also warn other Christians to avoid it.
>
> May God bless,
> Carl
> my website --http://www.nettally.com/saints/
> my blog --http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/
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