on 12/23/05 6:21 PM, matrixmonitor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ---Yeah but the Fundie's have won the battle (not the long term war). > Since Carter's Presidency, the Fundies have more or less Shangheid the > executive branch of government, with plenty of right-wing big brass > Fundies (even going back to the Reagan era - e.g. Oliver North) , > secreted in high places within the pentagon, CIA, NSA, etc. > As to numbers, the TM Movement has almost become extinct but the > fundie Evangelical movement has burgeoned into a humongous powerhouse > of influence. You could probably count the numbers of active TM'ers in > the US in the thousands (a few thousand); but the largest Megachurch > in the US (in Houston- televangelist Joel Osteen) , draws in 20,000 > every Sunday. Even small towns all across the Midwest practically > have a Church for the fundies in every square mile. They're coming out > of the woodwork. Something stronger than TM-ocide spray will be needed > to deal with the pestilence. > Somebody - some remarkable Guru - must appear on the scene with a > visible demonstration of Siddhis.
Unless he could convince them he was Christ, they'd probably kill him. And to convince them of that, he would have to massacre the non-Christians, because that's what they're expecting the Big Guy to do. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
