I have been going to the local Iskcon weekly gatherings for 6 months now. I was really disgusted at how they say jesus and mohamed are paths to krishna. I asked them how the hell they can praise someone who says he alone can lead to God, and when that God described by Jesus himself is so bigoted and superficial, and how iskcon would like muslims to listen to mohd and break their temples. They gave some apology about words being put in jesus' mouth, and about mohd saying good things too. I exposed all these lies with web sites and asking each one to read faithfreedom.org, koran, hadith, old testament, caesar's messiah etc.
Now most are coming around to my view, and the smartest one there says prabhupada used jesus etc to try to gain xtian converts, not for any other purpose. I constantly tell them about working to save Hindu Dharma rather than trying to put down demigods and sai baba etc, and they are coming round. One day we met a hindu student activist trying to get signatures to protect textbooks in US from anti hindu distortion, and all iskonites in my group eagerly signed on.
I think this view that "jesus and mohd are crap", the right view, will slowly permeate upwards. I will make sure of that. Iskon has the b@lls to preach in Pak. I cannot bring myself to go against anyone who brings some light to mulla fools in pak. We need to coopt iskcon. I know these things take time, lots of time, but I can see it happening.
Iskcon certainly is not 100% right, not even 70%, but that does not mean we make enemies out of them. It means we talk to them, and spread the reality about jesus and mohd amongst the iskonites.
Remember: if we cannot correct isknotes on jesus and mohd, what hope do we have of correcting the psec hindus?
If any iskonite in my group says anything against hinduism, I call them out on it. I also ask what part of the scripture gives jesus and mohd any authority. I ask how we can call ourselves devotees while praising people who preached and practised breaking krishna murtis, among other things.
Now most are coming around to my view, and the smartest one there says prabhupada used jesus etc to try to gain xtian converts, not for any other purpose. I constantly tell them about working to save Hindu Dharma rather than trying to put down demigods and sai baba etc, and they are coming round. One day we met a hindu student activist trying to get signatures to protect textbooks in US from anti hindu distortion, and all iskonites in my group eagerly signed on.
I think this view that "jesus and mohd are crap", the right view, will slowly permeate upwards. I will make sure of that. Iskon has the b@lls to preach in Pak. I cannot bring myself to go against anyone who brings some light to mulla fools in pak. We need to coopt iskcon. I know these things take time, lots of time, but I can see it happening.
Iskcon certainly is not 100% right, not even 70%, but that does not mean we make enemies out of them. It means we talk to them, and spread the reality about jesus and mohd amongst the iskonites.
Remember: if we cannot correct isknotes on jesus and mohd, what hope do we have of correcting the psec hindus?
If any iskonite in my group says anything against hinduism, I call them out on it. I also ask what part of the scripture gives jesus and mohd any authority. I ask how we can call ourselves devotees while praising people who preached and practised breaking krishna murtis, among other things.