Old Off Wine, New Bottles
From Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. “It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected by an invisible chain with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the color of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.” Edward Gibbon Chap. XXVI – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [Chap. XXVI] This is just what India’s most revered religious icon, the supposed “holy man” Sathya Sai Baba, still teaches today! (See here).
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Further, Gibbon’s intelligent description fits the Sathya Sai Central Trust and Organization like a glove, but this took place already when the Roman Catholic Church was established by Emperor Constantine: …preachers recommended the practice of the social duties; but they exalted the perfection of monastic virtue, which is painful to the individual and useless to mankind. Their charitable exhortations betrayed a secret wish that the clergy might be permitted to manage the wealth of the faithful for the benefit of the poor. The most sublime representations of the attributes and laws of the Deity were sullied by an idle mixture of metaphysical subleties, puerile rites, and fictitious miracles. [Chap. XX]
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We see here how nothing much changes where organized religious doctrine and faith rule… millions still adhere to outworn ideas and falsities – not least those of Sathya Sai Baba. It is a primitive world where pre-scientific thought and superstition abound and sustain the same money and power structures that have mostly kept humanity in chains for aeons. See HERE how the Sathya Sai Organization works today. Also see ‘The Decline and Fall of the Showman Empire’
Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed 