Jefferson Bethke appeared on some of the talk shows - author of "Jesus is Greater than Religion". .....(an expanded and more eloquent version of his initial video on why Jesus hates religion.) ... Reply by Father Pontifex :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_tC4fv6FE&list=TLw6O1TvT5gnucnbhKkYFwByAEp0QVD2GH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_tC4fv6FE&list=TLw6O1TvT5gnucnbhKkYFwByAEp0QVD2GH ... Offhand, I'd say that MZ would support Fr. Pontifex's rebuttal to Bethke. A greatly expanded consideration might be something like: 1. To what extent are TM practitioners involved with, or attached to religious constructs or belief systems, including worldviews like the Vedic system, or for that matter Buddhism or Christianity? Are such attachments crutches? (a vp expressed by one of the claimants to Enlightenment. Can religious attachment be "dharmic"? ... What value is there is devotion to a Guru? (independent of techniques).
