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A Jesus-Muhammad Comparison Brethren, I will share with you two stories, one from the New Testament, and the other from the Hadith or authoritative Islamic tradition, second only in authority to the Koran. Read them well and compare them, and then ask yourself, who would you rather follow? Jesus, or Muhammad? John 8:2-11 (NIV) 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the...

“Ours is an age of religious cacophony, as was the Roman Empire of Christ’s time. From agnosticism to Hegelianism, from devil-worship to scientific rationalism, from theosophical cults to philosophies of process: virtually any worldview conceivable is offered to modern man in the pluralistic marketplace of ideas. Our age is indeed in ideological and societal agony, grasping at anything and everything that can conceivably offer the ecstasy of a cosmic relationship or of a comprehensive Weltanschauung [worldview].”[1] Read more: http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/2010/09/worldview-defined-and-explained/

Tantra has intrigued Westerners since the 1960s, when patchouli-perfumed shops sold little bottles of body oils and "Joy of Sex"-style manuals jazzed up with a bit of Eastern flair, products that were marketed as spiritual aids that would catapult users into heretofore unknown realms of sexual ecstasy. And yes, according to Tantric practitioner Margot Anand, satisfying sex is indeed one of Tantra's sacraments, but not as an end in itself. Tantra teaches that giving and receiving pleasure helps people get past fear, ignorance, desire and false beliefs while bringing them into harmony with the divine. Anand, author of many books,...