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    Namaste PineblossomJi

    If satsang is your main focus, and which makes sense because Sadhu Sang - association, is a key catalyst on the spiritual path,

    Here are two more satsang-oriented Temples:

    http://www.iskcon.com.au/ - Sidney
    http://www.iskcon.org.au/ - Brisbane

    The Sidney Radha-KRushNa Temple has a dear group of enthusiastic devotees from what i see - their ratha yAtras and street sankirtans are a wonder to watch. I happen to know one of them - whose hobby is photography cum writing and brings these lovely moments to us.

    Jai Shri KRshNa
    praNAm
    || Shri KRshNArpaNamastu ||

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    Quote Originally Posted by NayaSurya View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by BryonMorrigan View Post
    By the way, if you guys want to watch a movie about the horrific way that Christianity took over the Roman Empire...watch the movie "Agora." It's a big-budget historical epic about the "Pagan" philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who was murdered by a Christian mob because she wouldn't convert...in a "not so nice" fashion. Here's what a Christian Historian from the 5th century CE had to say on the matter:

    "Some of [the Christians] therefore, hurried away by a fierce and bigoted zeal, whose ringleader was a reader named Peter, waylaid her returning home, and dragging her from her carriage, they took her to the church called Caesareum, where they completely stripped her, and then murdered her with tiles [oyster shells]. After tearing her body in pieces, they took her mangled limbs to a place called Cinaron, and there burnt them." -- Socrates Scholasticus, 450 CE

    You can watch the trailer HERE, but it doesn't quite show you just how great the movie is. The director, an Atheist, tries to imply that Hypatia was an Atheist...but PULLS NO PUNCHES in making the Christians the obvious villains of the movie. Here's the scene that shows the Christian mob destroying the Library of Alexandria. The atrocities that they commit in this movie make you think you think of the Taliban.

    It took a very long time for the movie to be available in America, because the Christians protested it immensely. (It's a Spanish film...but in English...) The movie is currently available on NetFlix Instant Viewing if you have access, and playing on Showtime. I so wish we could start making movies like this about the history of Hinduism!
    Agora was very moving especially killing part of the female scholar
    Another new movie, The Borgias, is on showtime today at 8c/9E on, a sordid papal saga yet again.
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    I just saw Agora the other day. It seems to have a lot of relevance for our time. It often seems that Christians are overruning our culture with their hatred and intolerance. Too bad the film offers us no realistic solutions...

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    What you might realize is that in 325 CE at Nicaea Christianity moved from the persecuted to the persecutors.

    What matters to Christianity is not Jesus but what you believe. Unless you believe what the Church teaches you are not a Christian. And what the Church teaches is not what Jesus taught.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pineblossom View Post
    What you might realize is that in 325 CE at Nicaea Christianity moved from the persecuted to the persecutors.

    What matters to Christianity is not Jesus but what you believe. Unless you believe what the Church teaches you are not a Christian. And what the Church teaches is not what Jesus taught.
    Respectfully, I think it's a bit of a fallacy to say that Christianity has become corrupted because it strayed from the teachings of Jesus. The Bible contains very little of the teachings of Jesus to begin with. The four gospels take up only a small part of the Bible, and even they are largely redundant. Because we're dealing with such a small amount of material, these teachings can really be interpreted however anyone likes. I'm sure Jesus taught great things, but no one bothered to write them down. So even in its purest, Biblical form, I don't see much redeeming value to Christianity.

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    Christianity is rotten because of christianity itself. That's the sad part that may be a little hard for a christian to accept.

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