<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Feb 16 2008, 10:52 AM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Feb 16 2008, 10:52 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->That said, let me just say that it's quite possible that Paine is cast in the mold of a Frawley or Danino and that his Deism is akin to the Great Spirit of the Native Americans (as you said in your other post).Â
[right][snapback]78572[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt (unless and until such a time as we come across and confirm anything that is not consonant with such a view).
For one thing, there are his actions, and for the other, the fact that christo America has completely ignored him <i>on purpose</i> (which is very telling), while some atheist in America entertain ponderings on whether or not Paine might have traded his Deism in for Atheism if he were alive today - considering science, evolution (but I think not).
Others may know first-hand, but it doesn't appear that American education teaches kids much about Paine, even though the young nation owes so much to him.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We should examine why these individuals turned up so different than their contemporaries. Their accounts usually say that they felt atracted to Dharma since Childhood. I came across a similar statement by Frank Morales on youtube.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->And Ishwar Sharan, as per his interview, was attracted to Hindu Dharma because it was a religion that showed obvious experience of the Mother Goddess and which confirmed his own.
Paine might have fought off all the effects of even the surrounding <i>societal</i> christian 'meme' at a young age, to pursue his own inner idea of what his God was like and that inspired his understanding of natural law/what is right (or what we call Dharma). Having hit upon a truthful view of God, that inner idea would have led him to his legitimate God/attracted the same into his heart. It obviously doesn't happen often enough, but it does happen.
I think it starts off with some people having a true inner quest for truth. They keep looking with sincerity and an open mind and obviously that leads them to the truth.
I read somewhere that many European settlers were instantly attracted to NA native American tradition and life, and their controllers couldn't get them back. I think it was in that Christian Heritage site, but it is also here: http://freetruth.50webs.org/A4a.htm#NativeAmerica
Natural religions must continue to exist for this additional reason. The presence and interaction with natural religions seem to act as a catalyst for people who are already tending toward such ideas. It gives them confirmation of their personal discoveries, and feels like a return to home for them. That is, when such people growing up in a wayward (say christo) society come face-to-face with the existence of societies that understand, have preserved and live in a Dharmic manner that they recognise, it facilitates the return of these people to their natural selves, freeing them from the christoislamicommunazi meme their birth-society was infused with.
Or so I understand it.
[right][snapback]78572[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt (unless and until such a time as we come across and confirm anything that is not consonant with such a view).
For one thing, there are his actions, and for the other, the fact that christo America has completely ignored him <i>on purpose</i> (which is very telling), while some atheist in America entertain ponderings on whether or not Paine might have traded his Deism in for Atheism if he were alive today - considering science, evolution (but I think not).
Others may know first-hand, but it doesn't appear that American education teaches kids much about Paine, even though the young nation owes so much to him.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We should examine why these individuals turned up so different than their contemporaries. Their accounts usually say that they felt atracted to Dharma since Childhood. I came across a similar statement by Frank Morales on youtube.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->And Ishwar Sharan, as per his interview, was attracted to Hindu Dharma because it was a religion that showed obvious experience of the Mother Goddess and which confirmed his own.
Paine might have fought off all the effects of even the surrounding <i>societal</i> christian 'meme' at a young age, to pursue his own inner idea of what his God was like and that inspired his understanding of natural law/what is right (or what we call Dharma). Having hit upon a truthful view of God, that inner idea would have led him to his legitimate God/attracted the same into his heart. It obviously doesn't happen often enough, but it does happen.
I think it starts off with some people having a true inner quest for truth. They keep looking with sincerity and an open mind and obviously that leads them to the truth.
I read somewhere that many European settlers were instantly attracted to NA native American tradition and life, and their controllers couldn't get them back. I think it was in that Christian Heritage site, but it is also here: http://freetruth.50webs.org/A4a.htm#NativeAmerica
Natural religions must continue to exist for this additional reason. The presence and interaction with natural religions seem to act as a catalyst for people who are already tending toward such ideas. It gives them confirmation of their personal discoveries, and feels like a return to home for them. That is, when such people growing up in a wayward (say christo) society come face-to-face with the existence of societies that understand, have preserved and live in a Dharmic manner that they recognise, it facilitates the return of these people to their natural selves, freeing them from the christoislamicommunazi meme their birth-society was infused with.
Or so I understand it.