If the Hindus are right, could the Virgin Mary come back reincarnated as a cow?
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Virgin mary hamburgers
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in virgin mary rather than jesus
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Christiasns think they are worshipping the God while Hindus and Buddhist worship false God.\n\nAt times they moderate it a bit and insted of outright calling you a Satan worshipper they tell you Only christianity is true while Hinduism Budhism etc are only Partially true.\n\nThey expect you to convert because they have got money. And if you do not accept that wait till they get as much number as in North India , where they already do get converts on gun point.\n\nAnd wait. There is more. Do you know that when Christ will return, he will do ethnic cleansing and kill all non Christians. Very Christian thought indeed.\n\nIn 1984, the then Episcopal Bishop of Newark (NJ), John Shelby Spong visited India and wrote the following:\n \n\n“what I learned about Hinduism enhanced my appreciation for this ancient religious tradition. I saw a beauty in it that was enviable, and I found many points where Christians and Hindus are seeking to deal with the same human needs in remarkably similar ways”. \n\nHe admired the absence of the “spirit of missionary imperialism” in Hinduism and questioned whether or not the “Christian claims to possess infallibility or ultimate truth are not signs of a brittle pettiness that cannot endure”. \n\n (source: Proselytization In India: An Indian Christian's Perspective - By C. Alex Alexander).
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for the record i like cows, they're nice.\n\nseveral religions believe in reincarnation. how you recognize people is different than you might think. some believe you carry similar physical traits in each life. some people are lucky enough to carry glimpses of their past lives, and they figure it out. it's not like you see someone and go "hey charlie where you been buddy?!"..it's more of a recognition on a deeper level. think about someone you've just met and instantly clicked with, and you can't quite put your finger on why. it's possible that you knew them/were related to them in a previous life. i've had that happen with several friends/boyfriends.
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There is no real evidence that Jesus went to India after his death and resurrection. There is a possiblity that the apostle Thomas went to India, but not Jesus.
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Yes. Buy milk related products as a visual demonstration of the importance of the cow goddess in Ancient India that was considered the giver of life. Explain why the goods you brought, visually demonstrate the significance of the cow in daily life, and in the Hindu religion. Finally, prepared a few visual effects with a projector, to show the images of the cow goddess as they were commonly drawn in India. You can find some online or in a book about Indian mythology. Accompany the visual images by your explanation of the role religion gave the cow. If you can, touch upon the various names given to the cow, to denote her various aspects. Mention that fact that other cultures, like the Egyptian one, worshiped the cow as well, and show from there the possible cultural exchange between different countries. That's just one idea. Good Luck.
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I am praying that this will not happen.  Having Paris playing the sainted Mother Teresa will be blasphemous.  How can someone who is so materialistic play someone who helped the poor and the dying in the slums of India. \n\nThis has to be a publicity stunt.
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No it would just stop producing milk like any other species. Cows only produce milk constantly because we milk them. So long as that happens the cow or any other animal will continue to produce milk.
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I believe in reincarnation.  I do attend church sometimes because my Hindu temple is far from me and I don't get to go there often.  And I do find some good things about Church.  I like the sermons that our pastor gives, and the singing and stuff. \n\nThe subject of reincarnation does not usually come up, but if it did, I'd probably just remain quiet.  I don't go there to cause a stir or bring dissension.
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Nothing of this kind would happen. The stranglehold of  religion is so strong on human minds that even the discovery that there are other parallel universes elsewhere would not loosen it. In fact, the findings of such a bewieldering variety of intelligent 'human beings'    would firm up their faith in God and belief in His infinite capacity of creation.Perhaps if the aliens are also religious they might be having similar ideas of their being created in the image of their god in which case there would a confluence of ideas further bolstering religion.When the monotheist and polytheist religions came into contact with each other both of them adjusted their beliefs to the new findings. The monotheists took that the many forms of god are but the multifarious manifestations of a single god. The polytheists joined in by saying that God is essentially one and only one and all others are his forms taken by him on various occasions. The Indian philosopher Shankaracharya says that even a savage performing human sacrifices is a religious person in no way inferior from the philosoher who attempts to attaain god merely through meditation.  The difference is only in degrees.The savage does not sacrifice human just for satisfying his tougue with flesh. He has an unclear and yet definitely an idea to rise above him.The clash of civilisations which is at present  much talked about is not essentially bad. It is an opportunity of evolving a deeper understanding of each other.
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No, not reincarnation.\n\nBut The Qur'an talks about being raised again on the day of judgement.\nAs humans were created from nothing, and will die and turn into dust, God, the Almighty, can raise the dead again.\nHe is the most powerful, the most forgiving.
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The idea of reincarnation, from my understanding, appears in Indian Hinduism.  In these cultures there is the caste system, untouchables at the lowest, most subserviant end of society and Brahmans at the highest end.  There is very little social mobility;  You cannot change caste in one life time.\nElevation in life's standing come through leading a good life.  If un untouchable lives a bad life he could expect to come back as an elephant or cow.  If he was a bad cow, he might come back as a goat.  A Good Braham enters the first level of heaven and even there, there are levels, 14 I think.\nAs a westener, I find this a facinating insight as to how our culture forms our faith stories.  Notice the principle is the same in ours and theirs: Be good and you will be rewarded.
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To be brief to your overall point I am finding it hard to believe the entire God-incarnate thing. I'm all for the Jesus but not the details of fundamentalist Christianity.\n\nI believe I am wrong, and seek more facts.\n\nI don't think about Jesus coming back, on any serious intellectual level.\n\nI try and not think about a second coming of Jesus, yes.\n\nI was born again and had a baptism. A few months later I was told to choose between beliving in Jesus or that man evolved from an ape.  I left and am not sure I went back.  I don't want this to be a debate on evolution.
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none. No other religious leader i know of even claims to have come back to life.\n\nHindu think  Buddha is in Nirvana. Jews never had anyone claim to come back to life, Muslims think Muhammad is with Allah...\n\nWe Christians are the only one to have someone come back to life.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared 6 times to 3 shepherd children; Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta; between May 13 and October 13, 1917. She came to the little village of Fatima, Portugal. She came with a message from God to every man, woman and child of our century. Our Lady of Fatima promised that the whole world would be in peace, and that many souls would go to Heaven if Her requests were listened to and obeyed.\nShe told us that war is a punishment for sin; that God would punish the world for its sins in our time by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and persecution of the Holy Father, the Pope, unless we listened to and obeyed the command of God.\n\nGOD HIMSELF\nEndorses Fatima\n       As a great sign of this whole mesage truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima before 70,000 witnesss on October 3, 1917 at the time, date and place that Lucy and the other two children had prophesied in the name of Our Lady of Fatima.\n\nShe told us that God had chosen to use Russia as the instrument of chastisement to punish the whole world if we did not, by our obedience, prayers and sacrifices, obtain the conversion of Russia to the Catholic faith.\nShe promised us, "If My requests are granted Russia will be converted and there will be peace".\nBut She also warned us, "If My requests are not granted, Russia will spread her errors throughout the world raising up wars and persecutions against the Church, the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated."\n\nThe third secret somewhat controversial, has to do with the faith of the believers being compromised...they will lose their faith.Some say that the 3rd secret has not been fully revealed, because it was supposed to be revealed in 1960, and because much has happened since then, those in the higher levels of the vatican have supresssed it.\nThe last surviving visionary, Sister Lucy, who died february 13,2005,was silenced by the vatican, so they controversy about the 3rd secret continues.
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The Indian god Krishna too bears a tremendous resemblance to Jesus  in the story of his mission and his divinity. He was the incarnation of the Indian's supreme god Vishnu (the preserver and protector of the world) in the womb of Devaki. The Hindoo prophet Bala predicted that a divine Savior would "become incarnate in the house of Yadu, and issue forth to mortal birth from the womb of Devaci (a Holy Virgin), and relieve the oppressed earth of its load of sin and sorrow." Upon Krishna's birth, a great chorus of angles proclaimed "In the delivery of this favored woman, nature shall have cause to exalt." His birth was indicated by a star in heaven. Although of royal blood, he was born in a cave. He was presented with gifts of sandalwood and perfumes. His foster father was told to flee and hide him lest king Kansa might take his life. King Kansa had ordered all male infants born on that night to be slain. One of his first miracles was the healing of a leper. He was later slain and this resulted in an eclipse of the sun and a black circle forming around the moon. Spirits were seen on all sides and he descended into hell, rose again, and ascended into heaven with many people being witnesses to his bodily accent. He will have a "second coming" in the future which his followers continue await. There are countless other similarities with what is known today as "Christianity" even though his religion was well establish centuries before the birth of Jesus . The accounts of Krishna's childhood agree quite closely with the apocryphal accounts of Jesus' childhood. In the ancient epic poems, Krishna is simply regarded as a great hero, it was not until about the 4th century BC that he was elevated to the position of a god.
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should we take their reality into consideration ? yes.\n\nwill religion that proselytise will do it? does not look like it.\n\n  both major religions in world today are the religions which call their own beliefs to be only truth. \n\nchristianity do not get converts till they finish off the local culture. for accepting ancesters of iserilies as their own or accepting jesus as only saviour etc will not go with native beliefs.  christianity will not accept any native belief as it is not written in bible thus false by default.\n\n somebody asked a question on YA why christian missionaries destroyed local culture.  most people said their soul was more important than culture. that is the mind set by organized religions.\n\nsame goes for islam.\n\nthere was a time when buddhist have done similar things. though few buddhists used actual sword they used other mean methods extensively. they tried to malign hindu avatars. they actually invited foreign invaders to attack indian kings more than once. the fault of the king was that he did not converted to buddhism. \n\nthey just got boomranged when last muslim invader they invited did not converted to buddhism as others had done. instead all buddhist area of india is now muslim majority area. from afganistan to bangladesh.\n\npoint is those seeking converts can go to any extent. they may even think there are doing a favour. or just feel superior and that they had hit the jackpot. there being charitable by collecting useless local currency and giving them real money. whatever.\n\nAmy is right when she said native cultures are doomed. \n\nYou know my parents and other older relatives say there was a time that every mango tree had a different flavour. all good in their own way.\n\n mango seed was used to grow new plants. and each plant used to be unique depending upon the soil and neighbouring environment . growing plants by seed took more time and resultant taste might not have desired taste. then the era of Kalami mango came. and most of the varieties disappered. just because they used stems from a single tree for whole gardens.\n\nnow there are hardly 5 or 6 types and all of them taste the same. but there is not much we can do. most flavours are already lost .