02.11.08
Gita and religious war
Comment on Religion and Violence.
The commentere is apparently the same ‘John’ who has submitted a series of spam comments for that creepy guru Da Free John
I don’t find this kine of one-sided denigration particularly appropriate, especially from the Da Free John quarter.
The violence and savagery of the Hindus against the Buddhists (who weren’t choir boys either) pretty well scotches this idyllic view of the world of gurus and their ashrams. Is the Bhagavad Gita not about religious war? Forget Gandhi’s finesse here. The Gita is a now distorted war cry in the war against Buddhism from the reactionary neo-Brahmins, and a figure like Da Free John is certainly among that number.
So, spare us your ashram/guru propaganda. Da Free John is an especially nasty predator.
sillykitty said,
February 11, 2008 at 10:19 pm
everything john says sounds pretty right-on to me. the irritating paradox of destructive gurus: they frequently have such good ideas!
it seems though, in my sad experience, that gurus, and their cults, of WHATEVER stripe, are in no way immune from the paranoid process john describes. it’s not merely a problem of the ’semitic’ religions. it is a human problem and addresses itself to the question of evil? i always liked the sam keen book, faces of the enemy–it has nice pictures too :).