Temples

Why would you build a work of art dedicated to a religion based on uncertainty? We visited two temples today. One was a Buddist temple, which was just in a normal building, but the second was a Hindu temple. It was beautiful, stainless white with intricately carved pieces set together like a puzzle, solid without any metal reinforcing. But it was a white seplchure for a dead religion. In this case a sect of Hinduism that bases its worship around a Hindu reformer called Swaminarayan, a recent addition to the Hindu gods. Or rather the incarnation of the one god as the Hindu guide explained to us. One of the few things he could explain. It seems to be a small very liberal sect of Hinduism. Like more liberal Christians they embrace all religions. After all, we all worship the same god, we just called it by differant names!

...don't we?

I Cor. 10:20

"But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils."

Deut 4:35

"Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him."