--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "matrixmonitor" 
> <[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.
> >   
> 
> 
> 
> Why should the performance of some parlor tricks be evidence of 
> enlightenment or something good?
> 

It wouldn't necessarily be evidence of anything positive, but it 
WOULD impress many fundamentalists, though not necessarily ina 
positive way. 





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