--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Very few religions or spiritual groups could be more > characterized as "jealous religions" than the Christian > fundies. They feel *threatened* a lot. People who can > think for themselves threaten them. People who are > open to other spiritual traditions threaten them. So > "like attracted like." When TM began to make inroads > into their numbers, they became even *more* jealous, > and decided to fight the TMO.
I don't think TM has ever made any "inroads" into the number of Christian fundies. Some young people who had been brought up fundie and had rebelled and gone their own way as they got older may eventually have gravitated to TM, but they were already irrevocably lost to the fundies. I suspect you'd find there are far more people who used to be TMers who have become fundies than vice-versa. What the fundies fear is that other belief systems may attract those people the fundies view as targets for fundie proselytization and get them before the fundies can. Certainly they don't want their children exposed to other belief systems if it can be prevented, but it's not as though large numbers of fundie kids have been "converted" directly to TM. This doesn't affect your "karma" theory at all, BTW; it just corrects that part of your premise. I don't think it makes much sense to try to scope out karmic cause and effect, though, especially when you're talking about the interactions of large groups, in this case at least one of which is deeply enmeshed in the cultural/political/social fabric of the country. Individual karma is complex enough; group karma is vastly more complicated. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
