Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
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On The Importance Of Certifying The Credible And The Incredible
Every religion now is set upon from within by charlatans cloaking themselves in religious words in order to promote irreligious deeds.
Theologians must remedy this situation. Here is a means: a Uniform Code of Spiritual Justice, comprising three aspects of one vital dedication:
1- Describe the changeless, universal identifiers of religion, irreligion and anti-religion.
2- Using those identifiers as terms of reference, codify a body of policies and procedures to establish, direct and guide Theological Councils tasked to certify the credibility or non-credibility of claims to represent a religion or to have constituted one.
3- Alert governments to the existence and teleology of credible claims and the existence and toxicology of non-credible claims to represent a religion or to have constituted one and counsel governments to vigilance and peremptory destruction of the puissance of originators of non-credible claims to represent a religion or to have constituted one.
Theologians are credible when they hold their profession bound to truth by promulgating it.
Update 1:
kevinstroup
Not believing in religion is not the same as not believing in God. You can be spiritual without being religious.
David R. Graham to kevinstroup
Well, Tillich is famous for saying that Christianity is the world’s great anti-religion religion. I add Hinduism to that description, but that will be a bridge too far for many at this time.
Dragblacker to David R. Graham
I’m not sure I follow. Does it mean that Christianity and Hinduism have elements in them that lead some people to eschew religion entirely?
David R. Graham to Dragblacker
Yes, that is what it means. It also is in Hebrew Prophetism. Religion is a means, not an end, much less the end. Like all means, it is fraught with danger because it can lead either Godward or Godaway because there are right ways to be religious and wrong ways. In fact, far more wrong ways than right ways. Far, far more. Religion is very dangerous in the absence of experienced and skilled guidance. Religion (Latin re + ligare) means binding up that which has become unbound. Once a body is repaired, its ligaments (ligare) grown or tied back together, it has no need for the doctor who or the procedures which repaired it.
Lawman45 to David R. Graham
Tillich is correct. Christianity, shorn of the Elmer Gantrys of the world, is a great handbook to living in a large society. Just remember that the substance is correct but all the rest is B.S. And, as I learned at Notre Dame, the “Priests”, the “Rabbis”, and the “Ministers” are just ordinary folk who live life free off of the insecurities of others.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
