Yesterday I attended a meeting and discussion group with representatives of the Eckankar religion. The facilitators of this meeting were pleasant and friendly people who shared their message casually and courteously. Half way through the meeting however two new individuals joined our small group of seven, one of which seemed to have arrived for the purpose of philosophical debate intended to discredit the Eckankar religion. This individual is well entitled to his opinions, however his persistent verbosity ended the process of group discussion and interrupted the explanations of Eckankar dogma as he demanded that the unexplainable be explained. The session quickly regressed into semantic rhetoric, though the facilitator was polite and patient. Perhaps this made the disrupter feel intelligent, but it is no huge intellectual feat to point out that religion is often silly, or to reveal that it does not follow the limited linear logic of the scientific process. This much is obvious thank you. This person showed himself to be the one demanding that others see the world as he, instead of the religious representative he tried so clumsily to debunk. People drove miles to discuss, while this one strolled in late looking stoned and disheveled to argue... What a jerk.


Blessings,


C.W. Arvidson