Ad - Sunday, November 18, 1984 - North Shore News SESS SSW MAS S strictly personal by Bob Hunter Born-again Bob HAVE TO ADMIRE anvbody who makes a wave, suirs up the pot, disturbeth the apathy. Ger LY, | Hats off. therefore. to Nigel Barttelot of West Van for torcing the issue on com pulsory reading of the Bible in our schools Of course. af the Bible is to be required reading. there are a few other teats which by nights ought to be required reading too, such ay the Talmud, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran, the | Ching. the Veda, the lL panishads, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. the Book otf Mormon, and probably, for good measure. a Theosophical work like Light on the Path, maybe something by Rudolf Steiner, and, for sure, some old back issues of Awake! On a planet as richly en- dowed as ours with diverse religions, it is a shame, if not a crime, to ignore the wealth of spiritual theones Oops, did | say theories? Well, until Armageddon or the dav ot the Dance of Shiva or the moment Michael Jackson reveals himself as Christ, as some Jehovah's Witnesses apparently believe, al! religions, 1f you ask me, are nothing more than theories Just so you know where I'm coming from, my own smorgasbord of religious beliefs included a 99 percent cettainty that remcarnation is a fact and enlightenment is a Jong range possibthty. there were probably hundreds. if not thousands, of Awakened Beings on carth at NV ablavus t uf times in history. the Buddha among them, God is alive and magiw is afoot, as Leonard Cohen said. the universe as probably a divine holographic projec- tion, Our souls are probably interlinked with other souls in both the past and tuture, as Seth says. the ultimate State of being is) probably what eastern mystics describe as the Clear Light, and, final ly in ao nutshell, 1 don't believe in death after lite All this makes me a born. again something. but I'd hate Jesus and to try to put a label on it Labels are Imiting at best, downright distorting as a rule, and often terrible and intellectually amputating. Vactous cirele of vengeance and blood lust book at the Mid-bast, where the descen dants of two desert prophets, Moses and “Nlohamimed, are stl tighting it out for turt Look at tretand Pll never forever. as a child, bene raised as a Catholic. the horrible discovers that my Protestant trends were going to goto hell when thes died 1] wept Who would | Play with when too pot to heaven’ At best. a given trelpiron represents what the Germans calla Wethurtheil or spiritual judgement Mystics) claim they “know the truth through some transcendental experience or direct pipeline to God People who simply have “‘behets’’ fall into the category of a flock who take some clergyman’s word for it ‘*The corruption of the highest tends to be the worst. And of course spiritual aspirations have produced, time and again, the most awful atrocities.’’ The corruption of the highest tends to be the worst And of course spiritual aspirations hase produced. time and time again, the most awtul atrocities: Relpion and discrimination poo alias! hand oon hand book at the mess in india. where twes basical ls Comipassronate religions ahe now trapped ina WEEKDAY SKI AWAY cho ate tucky enough te ' fra dorm of skung weekdays on Conada. Premier Mountain do we have a preat dea! for you! Whistler /Mountain on the grounds that he’s an expert Catholies, for in stance. don't read the Bible priests do aut for them That's not really ‘“'‘having a religion. to omy mind, sa much as accepting cant, sas ing vourself the trouble of thinking MW hile teloot Lom glad “4e Bart pointed out that the 1922 sectron of the School Act which requires the reading of a passage of Scrip- ture betore classes begin cach dav is stillon the books, Lcan only gasp with astonishment when he says we ltve in a Christian The heck we do! We lveina gloriously pols glot with) more rehwions and sects and cults than most of us can name SOLELY SOCICLIS Its a tree country, not a Christian countrys And ne one set of religious beliets should be shoved down our kids’ throats by the dominant That's what thes do in Iran Not here Please seul NorTH SHORES WHEELCHAIR EXPERTS. Wheelchairs 842 West 15th Street North Vancouver, BC Phone 988-5566 (24 hrs) Be Water \Vise | | B. 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