To: 1000 silverlings; caww
Actually you are incorrect about Hindus -- I've lived in India and met rishis and even normal Hindus. Both believe that the idols are actually God -- not symbols or indicators, but they are actually emanations of god (or one of the gods to be more precise). They do believe that you have a bit of god in you, in the sense that you are divine partly as well, hence there is a prayer of the Hindus to worship in front of a mirror (to worship the divine in you) and the indian greeting "namaskar" has it's origins in that (nam = name, askar = "respects"), it's origins meant that they would worship the divine spark in the other. Of course, on never said that to a Shudra!
For Buddhists -- well, it varies. Most Buddhists are Mahayana and so the same applies -- for Theravada Buddhists it's a lot more complex than that -- everything is "divine" in a way, but Theravada is more rigidly a-theistic than the Mahayana vehicle
344 posted on
12/16/2010 4:02:56 PM PST by
Cronos
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To: presently no screen name; boatbums
Hi BB,
the link you gave us is quite interesting.
It has a post that could perhaps clear up "presently no screen names'" doubts about St. Thomas being not blessed because he saw and believed
John 4:46-54 Believing is Seeing PDF
474 posted on
12/17/2010 1:37:52 AM PST by
Cronos
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