Monday, 17 February 2025

Religions Real Or Fictional

Starfarers.

Hanny Dayan debunked Cosmosophy

(I have just been reading about Theosophy and how Krishnamurti transcended it.)

"'[Mamphela Mokoena's] parents are ministers in the Samaritan Church.'" (6, p. 44)

(A Christian organization named after a branch of Judaism?)

Alvin Brent's mother was in the New Christian Church.

(That can mean anything, as we know.)

Zeyd is an adherent of the Ahmaddiyah Movement.

(This is real. Here.)

"Sundaram sat on the ground, on a bank of sacred Ganges..." (8, p. 69)

I identify with Sundaram.

3 comments:

Jim Baerg said...

"Ahmaddiyah"
I had heard about that sect, particularly in connection with the persecution of them in Pakistan.
They consider themselves to be Muslim & the Pakistani government regards them as heretics. The only Pakistani Nobel Prize winner was an Ahmadiyah and because of that Pakistan is ambivalent at best about him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Jim!

I read a bit about the Ahmadis some years ago--and IIRC they don't seem to be all that different from Sunnis. But I would need to look them up again.

Ad astra! Sean

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Jim!

I was too hasty in my previous comment. I did some looking up of Ahmadis and their doctrinal differences with other Muslims makes it understandable why Sunnis dislike and regard them to be heretics.

Ad astra! Sean