RE: Was Sai Baba a religious loon?
April 9, 2020 at 12:04 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2020 at 12:05 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 7, 2020 at 6:47 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Who actually fucking cares?
Exactly.
But I got to give one credit to Baba: that he didn't leave insane rantings behind him like, for instance, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada whose books are being sold on streets all over the world by his followers and which contain truly insane claims.
Sai Baba was a trickster who was doing cheap tricks to sway people and take their money, he didn't write/ leave books of his interviews; compared to Prabhupada who was a bullshit artist that inspired whole sorts of pseudoscientific movements which also got Charlton Heston (among others) involved into promoting it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
