As you both should have expected by now, I was making an informed statement far deeper than the obvious position you have reacted against.As far as I can see, all formalised religions are money making machines (for and by their priest castes), have cultic elements, suppress and exploit their follower more than lead them to emancipation ... and, sadly, Judaism cannot escape that criticism.Millenarianism has been an oft revived part of Judaism from its beginning. There has always been the great expectation of the Messiah from the time of Moses ... the Babylonian Captivity ... in Palestine under the Greeks and Syrians ... and, of course, I was making a joke at the expense of the early Christians ... including Jesus ... who were actually Jews. Judea at the time of Christ was awaiting the return of their King Messiah and the Holocaustic Destruction of their Roman overlords. That is 2 to 5,000 (?) years worth of millenarianism!
The point I tried to make is that for Hinduism, it was always 100,000s of years away. It was the Abrahamic tradition that had it tomorrow or within this life.
How and why did Lekhraj Kirpalani pick up and adopt monotheism and the Apocalypse ... and himself claim to the the Messiah in person for the first 20 years or so before introducing Shiva? Is the adoration of Lekhraj Kirpalani by the BKs not Christ-like? They have made him their 'Christ' far more than their Krishna.
Perhaps your Jewish friends are secular, enlightened Jews who do not believe in either the tribal or Messianic aspects of their culture/religion any more? Nor might they follow or agree with the principles of the Zionist movement. Of course, there are many Jews such as that. And there are many that know nothing and care nothing about their own religion, as with any religion. Personally, I don't believe in a "
Jewish conspiracy to take over the world" ...
A "Brama Kumari conspiracy to inherit over the world"? For sure! That is exactly what they say. "First India, tomorrow the World." A 2,500 Year 'Reich'.
But ... the 6 million figure is as 'mythic in value' as all the Brahma Kumaris' numbers. The Holocaust Industry is definitely making money and power out of that "Destruction" (
read: The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein. Noam Chomsky and Raul Hilberg both praised it) and the model has been exported elsewhere, e.g. to Asia. If that offends ...
argue it out with Finkelstein and Hilberg, not me. This director, and a very Jewish Hollywood one cannot deny, has made $100,000,000s out of Apocalypse movies reinforcing - or exploiting - the archetype into the collective mind of the West.
"Destruction" is the religion of Christian and Judaism[/b] (
note the BK use of the term). So why did Lekhraj Kirpalani take up a Judeo-Christian device? Was it something he picked up from British Christian Missionaries in Sind? Remember, he did not even know of Judaism by the early posters and call it
Islam instead.[/b]
And I am sorry but if you knew anything about the director (Roland Emmerich), I do not think you would be bothered about morality or "religiosity" any more than he is. He is far more outspoken, and outrageous, than I am. Mind you. He was willing to destroy Christian symbols in his film but frightened away from destroying Islamic ones. There is some controversy about that.