Organizer: A semitic faith condemned to idolatry?

February 12th

the christian use of the cross is clearly idolatrous. actually, much more insidious is the idol-worship of the bible as sacrosanct, literal truth.

what is 'idolatry'? it is blind and excessive devotion to something, in particular something that is not god. literalists are guilty of idolatrous behavior towards the bible.

A Semitic faith condemned to idolatry

February 8, 2005, 11:16 pm

By M.S.N. Menon
Organiser
February 13, 2005

It is the case of the Christian missionaries (of Benny Hinn, for example) that Hindus worship idols. They do. But they are free to go beyond idol worship to meditation (with eyes closed, dhyana)—from the worship of a personal God (monotheism) to meditation over a God without form or attributes (monism). This is Advaita.

But there is no way a Christian can bypass Jesus Christ and seek a formless God. (The very thought is blasphemous to Christians.) He is thus condemned to remain, with his idols and symbols, a monotheist. He is condemned to worship, to remain apart from God.

If you ask me which path I prefer, I say without hesitation: The Hindu path, for my goal is to be as perfect as God. Transform and transcend—this is the essence of the Hindu faith. Both are not open to Semitic faiths....