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Now then boys and girls,
let's play the 'religious dogma' - Gavin Coates
From:
jagbir singh <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 4, 2004 10:52 am
Subject: Now then boys and girls, let's play the
'religious dogma' - Gavin Coates
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If Gavin Coates, superb cartoon on religious dogma at Asia
Times Online speak a thousand words, then Malachi Martin's
superb pen is mightier than a thousand swords as well. He
writes that in "the ancient world and primitive, such as
Mohammad's Arabia, the book was a thing of mystery: only the
few could read it; only a few books existed, and these
possessed secrets which only the initiated could reach and
explain ... Central to the revelation concept in all three
religions is the notion that the truth revealed to them is
permanent, unchangeable, unalterable."
Now then boys and girls, let's play the 'religious dogma' of
these three religions that is written in stone - permanent,
unchangeable, unalterable:
"The Jews says:
I believe
- that there is but one God, YHWH, Eternal, Immutable,
All-Perfect, who dwells in Paradise; that He created the
skies, the earth, and all things visible and invisible; that
He created the angels and spirits, among which is Satan, the
Evil One, who was originally an angel, but who fell from
favour by disobedience;
- that He created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman,
each with a body He created Adam and Eve, the first man and
woman and immortal soul; that they sinned against Him, and
were expelled from Paradise; that He later revealed the true
religion to Abraham who thus is the father of all true
believers;
- that after Abraham's death Moses was the chief of these
and that he led the Israelites out of Egypt at the Exodus to
the Land of Promise; that he founded the law by which the
true Community of Believers might be saved and so be YHWH's
Chosen People living according to His Spirit and awaiting
His Messiah; that the Christians corrupted the original
teachings of Moses by following the teachings of Jesus of
Nazareth; that the Muslims corrupted the true belief of
Abraham and Moses further by following the teachings of
Mohammad;
- that Jerusalem is the holy center of the world; that
YHWH's revelation is only contained in the Jewish Bible;
that henceforth men are divided into the Chosen People and
the Gentiles; that YHWH's salvation is only with the Jewish
People;
- that there will be a Last Day in the history of the
world; that all men of the past will rise from the dead for
a Last Judgment by God; that only the Jews can receive the
final reward of Paradise; that on that day YHWH will admit
the Chosen People to eternals in Paradise, and severely
judge the others; that the sinful and the unbelieving will
be punished forever in Hell.
The Christians says:
I believe
- that there is but one God, Eternal, Immutable,
All-Perfect, who dwells in Paradise; that He created the
skies, the earth, and all things visible and invisible; that
He created the angels and spirits, among which is Devil, the
Evil One, who was originally an angel, but who fell from
favour by disobedience;
- that He created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman,
each with a body He created Adam and Eve, the first man and
woman and immortal soul; that they sinned against Him, and
were expelled from Paradise; that He later revealed the true
religion to Abraham who thus is the father of all true
believers; that after Abraham's death, He sent a number of
prophets to revive the true religion of Abraham;
- that Moses was the chief of these, and that he founded
the law by which the true community of Believers might be
saved; that the Jews corrupted the Law; that finally God
sent Jesus of Nazareth, His Son, to be the Messiah; that
Jesus taught men the true doctrine and founded the Church to
perpetuate these beliefs so that all Christians could live
according to His Spirit; that Jesus saved all men from sin
by His death on the Cross and resurrection; that Mohammad
and the Muslims corrupted both Jewish and the Faith of
Jesus;
- that Jerusalem used to be the holy center of the world,
then alter it was Rome, then still later various places in
the world; that God's revelation is only contained in the
Christian Bible; that henceforth men are divided into the
Church of believers and the non-believers; that God's
salvation is only to be found in the Church;
- that there will be a Last Day in the history of the
world; that all men of the past will rise from the dead for
a Last Judgment by God; that only the Christians can receive
the final reward of Paradise; that on that day God will
admit Christians to eternal in Paradise, and severely judge
the others; that the sinful and the unbelieving will be
punished forever in Hell.
The Muslims says:
I believe
- that there is but one God, Allah, Eternal, Immutable,
All-Perfect, who dwells in Paradise; that He created the
skies, the earth, and all things visible and invisible; that
He created the angels and spirits, among which is Iblis, the
Evil One, who was originally an angel, but who fell from
favour by disobedience;
- that He created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman,
each with a body He created Adam and Eve, the first man and
woman and immortal soul; that they sinned against Him, and
were expelled from Paradise; that He later revealed the true
religion to Abraham who thus is the father of all true
believers;
- that after Abraham's death, He sent a number of
prophets to revive the true religion of Abraham;
- that Moses was the chief of these and that he founded
the law by which the true community of believers might be
saved; that the Christians corrupted his Gospel; that Allah
finally sent Mohammad who left all he possessed at the
Hegira in order to establish successfully the true Community
of Muslims who could live according to His Spirit;
- that Mecca is the holy center of the world; that
Allah's revelation is contained only in the Koran; that
henceforth men are divided into Muslims and unbelievers;
that Allah's salvation is only with the Muslims;
- that there will be a Last Day in the history of the
world; that all men of the past will rise from the dead for
a Last Judgment by Allah; that only Muslims can receive the
final reward of Paradise; that on that day Allah will admit
the Muslims to eternal rewards in Paradise, and severely
judge the others; that the sinful and the unbelieving will
be punished forever in Gehenna. ...
Judaism
teaches that man has, since the disobedience of Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden, two inclinations in his heart: one
good and one evil. Malevolent dominance is the evil
inclination of man's heart. Christianity has developed its
essential doctrine of Original Sin: the sin of Adam and Eve
entailed for all men a loss of spiritual strengths and
qualities by which they could have avoided sin, especially
sins of malevolent dominance. Islam adopted more or less the
doctrine of Judaism with some slight modifications...
The
religions, therefore, installed at the heart of their
individual systems the basis for a tension and a
contradiction: the absolute perfection demanded of their
adherents and the tag of absolute evil pinned to its
contrary evoked necessarily a series of revolts out of which
sprang new polarizations, each claiming — in imitation of
the original — to be the final absolute, the absolute
absolute. Jewish, Christian, and Islamic morality thus could
father violent excesses of moral passion which, of course,
automatically, become excesses of human immorality....
When we
examine the modern environment of man in which Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam find themselves, it is abundantly
clear that these three religions are finished as major
influences. As predominantly systems of thought, worship,
ethical inspiration and of judgement on human affairs, they
are excluded forever from human affairs. But they will not
perish overnight. They will persist in some parts of the
planet with diminishing influence, dwindling numbers, and
changing faces. They will undergo periodic petty
renaissances and sporadic revivals. They will resist the
threat of extinction as dominant mysteries with all the
resources at their power and with desperation of all the
ancient experienced things at bay and staring at death.
Under this threat they may yet render invaluable services to
man. They may go protestingly. They may depart with dignity.
They will certainly pass with pathos; and their nodding fall
into eternal slumbers will needle the human mind with
nostalgia. But, as they are, their dominance is finished
forever. Their day is done....
All three
made fateful and fatal choices at the one priceless moment
that history afforded them. And all three are paying the
price levied by the logic of that history. For history never
forgives and never forgets.
But their
decadence, decomposition, and death today are about to be
the saddest part of their story. Nothing so unbecomes them
as the manner of their going. They are going because they
failed to the one thing they promised to do: explains man to
man, unwrap the riddle of his need to hate, show him he is
brother at one and the same time to tell all men and to the
angels. They failed to save him from the evil in him....
Christianity within its own borders has specialized in
self-crucifixion, at first to quite a minor degree during
the first 1500 years of its life, when heretics and
dissidents and accused witches and sorcerers were put to
death, as Jesus was. Then, with the breakup of its unity in
the 16th century, Christians devised for each other one Hell
more horrendous and tortuous than another, indulging in a
300-year round of mutual recrimination, accusation,
denigration, and relegation by bell, book, and candle, to
the filthiest categories of human life. No branch of
Christianity can be excused from this, because all
Christians have indulged in it. No body of Christians ever
answered the insults of other Christians with Christ's
answer: "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they
do?" They all developed special vocabularies replete with
violent words such as "heresy," "heretic," "extirpation,"
"condemnation", "excommunication," "outcasts," "unclean
believers." "vice-mongers." Each one devised its special
defenses against the other: social ostracism, civil war,
discrimination, calumny, legal non-existence. Rome was the
Red Lady of the South. Luther was the Pig of Germany.
Protestants were the sons of vipers. Jews were the "race of
the devil." Muslims were "benighted and error-ridden
barbarians." No body of Christians ever tried to conquer the
world with humility and patience and love, and no body of
believers ever tried to fan the flames of faith, in the
heart of man by being authentically believers.
The Jews, in retaliation for their pain and their sustained
exile, contributed to the sea of hate, distrust and, in some
cases, deformation of truth. They invented multiform
expressions of contempt, condemnation, loathing, and utter
rejection of Christians. They even modified some of their
traditional beliefs because the Christians had borrowed them
in their original form and, in their repugnance from all
things Christian, they wanted no resemblance to subsist
between their faith and that of the Christians. They
returned hate with hate. They, also, cannot be excused and
considered totally guiltless. They preached truth and
justice, yet they violated both in order to maintain their
religion and their Jewishness. Christians preached love but
practised officially sanctioned hate, intermingling their
loveliest psalms of compassion for their dying Savior with
the expressions of extreme disgust for the Jews...
Muslims preached mercy and compassion, but they practised
none or very little, assigning both Christians and Jews to
the lowest rung in Allah's consideration, and historically
meting out to both a treatment which rivals any cruelties of
man in known history. Down through the ages, this procession
of the crucified one has come: formed, maintained, and
augmented by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Each one has
prayed with its armies to its god that the armies of the
opponents be destroyed. There is no palliating or explaining
away the sin of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam....
Thus the three religions have not been witnesses to the
truth. All, it is true, have developed an exalted
vocabulary, and a very impressive manner of announcing their
own grandiose claims. All three have excelled and excel in
words, as distinct from actions. All three have an
impressive ritual and have refined psychological approaches
to man. Yet the witness of words, mere words, has never
changed men's minds, nor has mere theological subtlety
helped men to be better men. The witness of the three
religions have been faulty, at times perniciously false and
erroneous. The three of them have witnessed to the uses of
hate for the love of a god. And all three have disposed of
the lives and happiness of millions of human beings without
any real feeling for human suffering or any genuine concern
for the concrete realities of life.
It is clear, first of all, that today all three religions
lack any authoritative note for man. They have, as yet, each
one of them, sufficient number of adherents to give the
impression of continuing strength, and this glosses over for
them and for the outside world at times their terrible
weakness. For each of them, when scrutinized closely, is
blackened with sufficient failures to prevent any thinking
man from believing in them. And, above all, all three
persevere in making a claim which cannot possibly be valid
and true: that they are, each single one, the true religion.
Each one of them, however, hides from the ultimate test of
its validity and truth behind a wall of unknowing and
expectation. All three chorus that only the "Last Day," when
the "End" comes, when "God" decides, will it be clear that
the "other two" and all others besides were false, and it
(the claimant) was all along the true community of the one
"God."
"
1
There is one thing these mortal enemies agree upon
i.e., the dead will rise from their graves. All three have
the same dogma regarding the Resurrection. But
"then we have modern scientist who
cannot accept the "outside" explanation: that a god will
"resurrect" the corrupted body. He knows that in a living
body today the actual molecules which compose it were not
part of it some time ago. In another decade it will be made
up of molecules which at present are elsewhere: in African
lions, in passion-flowers of the Amazon, in Maine lobsters,
in earth in Patagonia, and in the fur of a Polar bear. For
the scientist, the body as such has truly ceased to exist.
No "shade" or reduced form of the body exists in an
"underworld" or in Elysian fields. The body has ceased to
exist. He therefore finds the resurrection of the body
unintelligible."
2
The Adi Shakti gives a more logical, spiritual answer to this
scientific, physical impossibility of the resurrection of the body.
Those taking part in the Great Event ordained for all
humanity know what She is talking about.
jagbir
"Of
course there are some absurd things which grew with
misinterpretation and interference from unholy people, which
are common in these religions.
For example, Jews, Christian and Muslims believe that when
they die their bodies will come out of their graves and they
will all be resurrected at the Time of Resurrection, at the
Time of Last Judgment, at the Time of Qiyamah.
It is illogical to think what will remain inside those
graves after five hundred years. Nobody wants to think and
understand that it is not the body but the soul that
will come out of these bodies, be born again as human beings
and be saved through Qiyamah and Resurrection.“
The Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
"There
are lots of myths in the Bible and one of them is that at
the Time of Resurrection your bodies will come out of the
graves. This is not only for Christians, but also for the
Muslims and Jews. Think of this — What remains in the grave
after many years? Only a few bones. And if these bones came
out how can you give them Realization? Think of it. It is a
big myth. Not possible logically.
In Nal Damyanti Akhyan they have clearly given that
when the Kalyug will come, all these seekers who are seeking
in the hills and mountains will be born again, and they will
be given their Self-Realization! Their Kundalinis will be
awakened and that is logical, because that is what we are
doing today.“
Shri
Mataji Nirmala Devi
India — December 25, 1993
1.
Malachi Martin, The Encounter, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1970, p. 182-85, 267, & 329-32
2. Malachi Martin, The Encounter, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1970, p. 286
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