"I was introduced to reincarnation at a young age..."
Thus begins the latest entry in Soul Cravings. He clarifies at the end of the sentence, "...but it was the Western version." He was talking about the idea that we were someone famous in a previous life. He kinda changed his tune when he visited places like India, Thailand and Cambodia.
I remember hearing Kemper Crabb talk about mothers drowning their babies in a river in India, to get them reincarnated quicker or something. I couldn't belive it. His dad, apparently, has been a missionary over in India for years.
McManus makes a good case here of how superior the teachings and Way of Jesus are to Hinduism and Buddhism. While reincarnation is really a curse of coming back until you "get it right," Christianity allows one to start anew. He brings up a good point about how the caste system of India keeps millions of people trapped in poverty. A philosophy, a religion keeps them there. The only hope the poor in India have is of living out this life and getting a better one next time. That does sound pretty awful, doesn't it?
Without making a joke out of it, McManus talks about the so-called "reality" of billions of souls living in roaches and rats at this very moment. It's kind of a weird way of living, don't you think?
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at November 9, 2007 09:56 AM