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mntleo2

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6. Many Christians Ally w/Pagans
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 06:24 AM
Jun 2013

...myself being one of them.

I learned something quite valuable from the Hindus in my life. From what I understand, of the many deities their faith embraces, each is simply one face of God that they can identify with more than other "faces". It is like a Hindu priest described who observed about the similarities of all faiths. He said he had taken a ride one day and drove around the base of Mt Rainier. He was amazed at how different that mountain looked from each side, it looked like a completely different mountain from every side! Yet each side was still part of the same mountain. He said our faiths see a particular side and think that is the whole mountain when in fact it is just one angle.

I liked that and have adopted it within my own faith because I realized that the faith I was raised in and identify with is simply one "face" that I see now. As a Christian I embrace reincarnation, as many of the first people of that faith also believed. I think I have been a Hindu, a Buddhist, a worshiper of some island deity, I am sure I have spent many lives seeing all sides of that mountain.

The sad thing about these wing nuts is that their reality is not only sick and the exact opposite of their own prophet's teachings, but they hurt so many by imposing their "mountain face" on others as if that is the whole mountain.

Cat in Seattle

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