Comments on: Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=3289 Anti-Theory Conspiracy Wed, 22 May 2013 22:40:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ross http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=3289#comment-11447 Ross Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:26:32 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=3289#comment-11447 Haven't read the whole article yet. No surprise really. So called “Christian” meditation has recently crept into my own (Catholic) Church and our Priest, an otherwise seemingly conservative guy in many respects, has admitted to allowing and Hindu alter to be set up in our church while performing a mixed marriage service. No doubt, many will simply write me off as a bigot for objecting to these things but I would argue it is they who don't understand. Religious pluralism is a belief system for those who don't understand anything about the core beliefs of any religion. Pluralists think they're belief is all inclusive when in reality it must so significantly alter the fundamental aspects of all religions in an attempt to make them all fit together as one, that it essentially excludes the core messages of the various beliefs it attempts to incorporate. The pluralist recognizes the fruits of various faiths as being the same (charity, peace, etc) but ignores the often radically different roots that run under the surfaces of the different religions. When some one points out these differences the Pluralist acts like these aren't important, when in reality, to the adherents of the respective faiths, they are the most important thing of all. For example, the reason I reject, so called Christian meditation is because it's creators based it on Hindu/Buddhist spiritual practices. In Hinduism meditation is meant to break down the I/You distinction between the practitioner and the impersonal Universal Soul. Buddhism goes a step further, with the practitioner attempting to extinguish his Ego entirely, achieving Non-Being, which the Buddhists see as the fundamental principle of all reality. For we Christians, the fundamental principle of all reality is God, Being Itself, Who is not just Personal but possess Three Persons. To commune with this God we need not eradicate our Selfhood or lose our Ego in His, rather God elevates our distinct Person-hood. This is why it is said that we are made in his image. I'm not trying to “beat people over the head” with my religion here, I'm merely illustrating a point. The Pluralist, wants to ignore the incompatibility of these 3 faiths and indeed all other faiths. They will cast people who criticism them as “intolerant” all the while not seeing that rather than reconciling all religions, they have merely created yet another religion and are themselves being “intolerant” of all people who won't accept it. I would have less of a problem if they would just admit that this is what they are doing. Haven’t read the whole article yet. No surprise really. So called “Christian” meditation has recently crept into my own (Catholic) Church and our Priest, an otherwise seemingly conservative guy in many respects, has admitted to allowing and Hindu alter to be set up in our church while performing a mixed marriage service. No doubt, many will simply write me off as a bigot for objecting to these things but I would argue it is they who don’t understand.

Religious pluralism is a belief system for those who don’t understand anything about the core beliefs of any religion. Pluralists think they’re belief is all inclusive when in reality it must so significantly alter the fundamental aspects of all religions in an attempt to make them all fit together as one, that it essentially excludes the core messages of the various beliefs it attempts to incorporate. The pluralist recognizes the fruits of various faiths as being the same (charity, peace, etc) but ignores the often radically different roots that run under the surfaces of the different religions. When some one points out these differences the Pluralist acts like these aren’t important, when in reality, to the adherents of the respective faiths, they are the most important thing of all.

For example, the reason I reject, so called Christian meditation is because it’s creators based it on Hindu/Buddhist spiritual practices. In Hinduism meditation is meant to break down the I/You distinction between the practitioner and the impersonal Universal Soul. Buddhism goes a step further, with the practitioner attempting to extinguish his Ego entirely, achieving Non-Being, which the Buddhists see as the fundamental principle of all reality. For we Christians, the fundamental principle of all reality is God, Being Itself, Who is not just Personal but possess Three Persons. To commune with this God we need not eradicate our Selfhood or lose our Ego in His, rather God elevates our distinct Person-hood. This is why it is said that we are made in his image. I’m not trying to “beat people over the head” with my religion here, I’m merely illustrating a point.

The Pluralist, wants to ignore the incompatibility of these 3 faiths and indeed all other faiths. They will cast people who criticism them as “intolerant” all the while not seeing that rather than reconciling all religions, they have merely created yet another religion and are themselves being “intolerant” of all people who won’t accept it. I would have less of a problem if they would just admit that this is what they are doing.

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