Posted on 08/12/2010 1:19:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Her parents were Baptist and Catholic and she was born in Georgia, part of the US Bible Belt. But Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts says she is now a practising Hindu. Speaking to the September issue of Elle magazine, Roberts said she goes to the temple to "chant, pray and celebrate."
The 42-year-old actress, who won a million hearts with Pretty Woman and an Oscar with Erin Brockowich, took to Hinduism during the shooting of her upcoming film, `Eat, Pray and Love' last year. In the movie, she plays a divorced woman who travels to Italy for food, India for spirituality and Bali, where she finds love. In the interview, Robert also spoke of reincarnation. "I've been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life. Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting," she said.
Swami Dharamdev of Hari Mandir, Pataudi, where `Eat, Pray and Love' was shot for three weeks in September-October last year, said it is good news if someone accepts Hinduism from the heart. During the film's shooting, he said, a makeshift temple had been constructed nearby where unit members would light lamps and burn incense sticks. "Julia too would pray there, run her hands over the lamp and her hair as we all do," he recalled. "She also got her three kids here. I tied the sacred red thread on their wrists and applied the tilak on their foreheads," he said.
Swami Dharamdev recalled the actress also requested him, through her private assistant, to pray for her mother who was ill. "Before she left I told her, `you may choose not to eat or love. But don't forget to pray. Make that a part of your life, not just acting in this film'. She smiled and nodded affirmatively," he said.
In a statement, Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism in the US, also said he and his fellow practitioners welcome Roberts into the fold.
Julia's move to Hinduism has sparked off a torrent of online response. Some are highly critical of her; others the opposite. "Another confused celebrity trying on the religion "flavour" of the month. Hindu? Does she even know what that means? How can you convert to another religion after making a film? Next thing you know she'll be wearing a Kabbalah bracelet after going to a Madonna concert!," was a comment posted on The Daily Mail's website. However, Anne, Leicester, wrote, "I like Julie Roberts, admire her work on screen and her commitment to her beliefs. If she's living her life to the ideals of Hinduism, that's all to the good. I look forward to seeing her latest film.
Right. It looked pretty simple to me, sorry you got confused. You seem to be the only one that didn’t understand it.
My question is...“why create people who will choose to kill?”
“Right. It looked pretty simple to me, sorry you got confused. You seem to be the only one that didn’t understand it.”
Yes, I do appear to be the only one attempting to cut through the sloppy logic of your writing. So let’s move on to your restated question:
‘My question is...“why create people who will choose to kill?”’
You’re asking God’s motive for creating the world the way that he did. You might as well be asking why he created animals, or the universe for that matter.
Other than that it is an expression of God’s will there is no answer. God’s sovereign will ordains everything that comes to pass, or permits whatever happens to happen. His perceptive will reveals to man how man ought to behave, such as “do not murder”. Add in God’s perfect will and you have pretty basic Christian theology.
But then you say that you have your own one God theology. So evidently you have an answer to the same question that you have been posing to everyone else.
Tell us your answer to your question of “why create people who will choose to kill?”
I’m asking what YOU think God’s motive is, I’m not asking God what His motive is.
Same answer as yours, I do not know. He just does.
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