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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: March 2012
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Thursday, March 29, 2012. The Curious Case IV. It would seem that Corky Ra has been caught with a hand in the cookie jar of plagiarism. But the accused deserves his day in court. Take the webpage entitled, “SUMMUM and The Kybalion. 8221; which is attributed to Corky under his venerable honorific. Here we find what amounts to a case for his innocence: “ Summum. Rewrites the information found in The Kybalion. 8220;in the Kybalion. It ap...
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: Curious Case IX
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Wednesday, May 9, 2012. What, then, are. We to make of the life, teachings, and accomplishments of Corky Ra? In a November 2008 interview with the Salt Lake Tribune. The President of Summum, Su Menu, asked, “Why should Ra’s encounters in the 1970s with ‘advanced beings’ . . . be any more suspect than those of, say, Joseph Smith? Suspect than the story of the meetings of the Prophet Joseph Smith with his angels? View my complete profile.
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: The Curious Case VII
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Thursday, April 19, 2012. The Curious Case VII. Let’s look at this curious case historically. Let’s look at three factors that helped form Corky’s life and teachings. There is, naturally, the influence of a New Age spirituality. Its self-help prescriptions (“You too can have the wealth of the wealthy, the fame of the famous”), crystals (“. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Curious Case VIII. Travel temp...
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: August 2010
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Monday, August 30, 2010. Our two outside perspectives on myth and religion are, unlike the theological, thoroughly secular. When at their purest, history and comparative religion neither require nor tolerate viewing their objects with sacral eyes. Otherwise, there is a distinct difference between the two. Or is there some universal archetype that underlies all hero myths, as Joseph Campbell claimed? There appears to be an analogy betw...
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: Bio
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. My journey began in a small farming community in the Idaho outback. The town of Aberdeen, which in my youth had a population of less than a thousand, contained a mix of Mormons, Mennonites, seven other denominations, and the unchurched. And so I went to Bethel College, in Kansas. There I met and eventually married a Mennonite preacher’s daughter. I was also enchanted when I discovered the freedom of liberal learning....But I wrote my ...
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: January 2011
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Saturday, January 1, 2011. Known to English-speaking readers as the Analects. Meaning a gathering of short sayings) is commonly attributed to Kung-fu-tzu. A name that the earliest Jesuit missionaries to China latinized as Confucius. Historians of ancient Chinese civilization have concluded that, though the Analects. Reads more like Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. Than like the Laws of Manu. As for the counterclaim that the Analects.
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: April 2012
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Monday, April 30, 2012. The Curious Case VIII. There are alternatives to Corky’s story. In place of the mythological tale of guidance from beyond the world we live in, there are naturalistic, historical narratives. Recall that before he was visited by his Summum beings, he said he’d always thought that those who said they had had visitations from otherworldly beings were “either lying or mentally ill.”. That might be. Many a teche...
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: April 2011
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. PUSHING THE RESTART BUTTON. I have been away. My last post was dated January 1. Now, nearly four months later, this blog is back in business. The reason for my absence is that I have been facing a question that has haunted me since I started teaching Comparative Religion. It is a “Why” question. Why are there patterns in Comparative Religion? But can’t we go beyond describing? Can’t we dig deeper? What about t...
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings: Curious Case VI
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God, Christ, and Other Mythological Beings. A guide for the befuddled. Thursday, April 12, 2012. And wouldn’t the insistent Summum Individuals have ridden their man in Utah to write his own book? There’s more. Besides Corky’s requests for a suspension of disbelief regarding his story, there are the crimes against history. The problems with the first example are that our knowledge. There is another gaffe. Corky himself is reported to have said before his death:. CNN, in 2009, interviewed Ron Temu, “...