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“My Dogma Ran over Your Karma” reverses the old bumper sticker slogan “My Karma Ran over Your Dogma”. For many years a Pop Culture mentality attacked the dogmas of the Catholic Church via bumper stickers and Volkswagen vans decked out with peace signs and flowers, and a response is long overdue.
Reincarnation is a false concept for a number of reasons, but there is no doubt this false philosophy has an advocate in the western media. We've seen an explosion of non-Christian Eastern Religions throughout every form of media. From Buddhism to Hinduism, from Martial Arts to Yoga, from Transcendental Meditation to the occult and "Christian Zen", we have seen a relentless push to undermine Christianity.
In fact, Eastern thought has found its way into not only the media, but into Catholic Workshops, Retreat Centers, Religious Orders, and into the mindset of many who call themselves Catholic but no longer hold to the doctrine and precepts of the Catholic Church. Combine this with the fact that we live in the day of "relativism" (the denial that absolute truths exist in reason, morality, and faith) and you have compounded the problem.
If we are "divine" (as advocates of reincarnation believe) and all is "one", and if there is no transcendent creator who is "other than created reality" and innocent for what we suffer, who then, caused the "original breach" in this "absolute one" that resulted in "suffering" and illusion" that everyone has to deal with to begin with? IF ALL IS DIVINE AND ALL IS ONE WITHOUT AN INNOCENT CREATOR, then the flaw that caused us all to suffer is intrinsic to the claim that “all is divine and all is one”. This flaw, this defect, the “original choice” made by someone which resulted in a loss of our “original innocence” is therefore forever doomed to repeat itself. The "Yin" and "Yang" must each have their due. This, in itself, cancels out the concept of Karma, Reincarnation, and Enlightenment.
So, when the Dalai Lama says "we are in a quest to return to our original innocence" the question goes to him ... "who was it that made us lose that primal, original innocence to begin with and why"?
Keep in mind, there is a difference between "simultaneous existence" and "shared essence" which cannot blur the distinction between “essence and individual entity”. In fact, “all is not one". All things simply exist simultaneously, one in relation to the other. And nothing that has been created is divine in its own nature.
Eastern thought is into "the fix" for that which we suffer without accounting for the “origins” of what we suffer and why. What we see in Eastern thought is none other than a grasp at divinity, as did our first parents, and a desire to self-redeem which is the foundation of Karma, and nothing more. We see Adam's children in rebellion, grasping at divinity once again, obstinate in impenitence. Instead of humbling himself before God, man attempts to fashion his own methods of self-redemption which can do nothing for him. And he is bound to live according to the "Natural Law" of morality which at best serves as a vestment for decent living, but is used to cloak the evil found within concepts such as reincarnation. None of it can redeem him. Only Christ can redeem man.
There is much to consider, and this book provides an insightful defense of Christianity. It is thought- provoking and very direct.
And the author speaks with experience. He holds a Black Belt in Martial Arts having been trained in 8 different styles, and witnessed first hand the constant, subtle, and sometimes open effort to instill the notion that we are divine in our own nature. He gave constant witness to Catholic principles during his years of training.
Reincarnation is a false concept for a number of reasons, but there is no doubt this false philosophy has an advocate in the western media. We've seen an explosion of non-Christian Eastern Religions throughout every form of media. From Buddhism to Hinduism, from Martial Arts to Yoga, from Transcendental Meditation to the occult and "Christian Zen", we have seen a relentless push to undermine Christianity.
In fact, Eastern thought has found its way into not only the media, but into Catholic Workshops, Retreat Centers, Religious Orders, and into the mindset of many who call themselves Catholic but no longer hold to the doctrine and precepts of the Catholic Church. Combine this with the fact that we live in the day of "relativism" (the denial that absolute truths exist in reason, morality, and faith) and you have compounded the problem.
If we are "divine" (as advocates of reincarnation believe) and all is "one", and if there is no transcendent creator who is "other than created reality" and innocent for what we suffer, who then, caused the "original breach" in this "absolute one" that resulted in "suffering" and illusion" that everyone has to deal with to begin with? IF ALL IS DIVINE AND ALL IS ONE WITHOUT AN INNOCENT CREATOR, then the flaw that caused us all to suffer is intrinsic to the claim that “all is divine and all is one”. This flaw, this defect, the “original choice” made by someone which resulted in a loss of our “original innocence” is therefore forever doomed to repeat itself. The "Yin" and "Yang" must each have their due. This, in itself, cancels out the concept of Karma, Reincarnation, and Enlightenment.
So, when the Dalai Lama says "we are in a quest to return to our original innocence" the question goes to him ... "who was it that made us lose that primal, original innocence to begin with and why"?
Keep in mind, there is a difference between "simultaneous existence" and "shared essence" which cannot blur the distinction between “essence and individual entity”. In fact, “all is not one". All things simply exist simultaneously, one in relation to the other. And nothing that has been created is divine in its own nature.
Eastern thought is into "the fix" for that which we suffer without accounting for the “origins” of what we suffer and why. What we see in Eastern thought is none other than a grasp at divinity, as did our first parents, and a desire to self-redeem which is the foundation of Karma, and nothing more. We see Adam's children in rebellion, grasping at divinity once again, obstinate in impenitence. Instead of humbling himself before God, man attempts to fashion his own methods of self-redemption which can do nothing for him. And he is bound to live according to the "Natural Law" of morality which at best serves as a vestment for decent living, but is used to cloak the evil found within concepts such as reincarnation. None of it can redeem him. Only Christ can redeem man.
There is much to consider, and this book provides an insightful defense of Christianity. It is thought- provoking and very direct.
And the author speaks with experience. He holds a Black Belt in Martial Arts having been trained in 8 different styles, and witnessed first hand the constant, subtle, and sometimes open effort to instill the notion that we are divine in our own nature. He gave constant witness to Catholic principles during his years of training.
