tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24006920.post114909562799331013..comments2023-10-15T06:36:17.734-05:00Comments on Truth Be Known News | Blog of Acharya S: Disclaimer: The Gospel Story is FictionAcharya Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03091289754963053674noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24006920.post-1149526212267247402006-06-05T11:50:00.000-05:002006-06-05T11:50:00.000-05:00AS;Humanity loves to be able to frame it's myriad ...AS;<BR/>Humanity loves to be able to frame it's myriad hatreds with religion. The idea of God allows people to behave in manners that hardly fit an evolved species. History shows this in a number of ways, perhaps none more telling than the world before Paul began his church. Hundreds of years before the birth of Christianity (circa 47AD) we knew that the world was not only round, but how large it was (Erotothsenes); that everything was comprised of Atoms (Democritus); how far it was to the moon (Empedocles); and the brain was the seat of intelligence (Galen) rather than the heart. It was known that humanity was but one of myriad creatures all having evolved from the same basic life forms (Heraclitus); and that matter and energy were the same thing (Democritus).<BR/><BR/>500 years later, the earth was flat, the stars were “pin-holes” in a crystal sphere pushed around by angelic beings, and humans were separate from nature. Thus began a period of 1700 years where past discoveries were persecuted and forgotten, and where all forward knowledge ceased. The Christian church wants the rest of the world to forget its tyranny, torture and murder for 20 nearly centuries. We cannot. For once we do, we are bound to repeat it. <BR/><BR/><BR/>LB<BR/>Author of HERETICSDr. W. Sumner Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12968211508032766959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24006920.post-1149105788140330722006-05-31T15:03:00.000-05:002006-05-31T15:03:00.000-05:00Dear Acharya,Thanks for this item, but be aware th...Dear Acharya,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for this item, but be aware that much of the anti-Christian stuff coming out of India is from radical Hindus. Christianity in India is growing, especially among the "lower castes" and women, given that Christians don't follow a caste system. This upsets the Hindu fundamentalists, and there has been a lot of violence between them as a consequence. Yeah, there is little of hard history in the Bible, but far less in the Hindu scripts, with its warring gods with elephant heads and multiple arms, flying carpets and such. <BR/><BR/>So I would ask if Venkat tries to root Christian mythology into earlier Hindu writings merely as a device by which to proclaim Hinduism as the "mother religion" which ought to be followed instead of Christianity. In a sense, one might consider Christianity in India as a kind of "reformist" movement, where the caste-system is eroded and status of women elevated at least a bit. Certainly among Muslims this is clearly the case, and all across Islamic Saharasia, Muslim converts to Christianity are either put to death, or forced to flee.<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>James DeMeo<BR/>Author of <A HREF="http://www.saharasia.org" REL="nofollow"><I>Saharasia</I></A>James DeMeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05446885907524143621noreply@blogger.com