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Can the Bible Reform America?

The American eagle flew higher and faster than all other civilizations because it flew on two wings: “Humble Faith” in the Bible and the Enlightenment’s “Commonsense.” (Michael Novak, On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Commonsense at America’s Founding.) Both these wings have now been clipped. Consequently, the “Eagle” is in a free fall. America’s crash will have terrible consequences for the whole world. Can America be reformed? Yes. The following lecture explains how: Praise God for a very busy volunteer who is sacrificing his time to upload at least one video per week on our YouTube channel – Vishal Mangalwadi. Others are helping to collect and edit hundreds of my lectures, scattered around the world. By watching and promoting the channel, you can help turn it into a course on a new reformation. Currently, I am on a 100-day tour: 7 Continents, 10-12 nations, and 40+ cities. (The “seven” includes two trips each to Europe and North America.) I plan to send reports from Switzerland, India, Uganda, and Germany, especially on several consultations we’ve had following the Phoenix Consultation in June. Ruth, who traveled to Australia in October, plans to join me in Germany on Sunday, Nov 10. From Nov. 11-15, we will be studying the book of Revelation with German theologians, pastors and Christian leaders. Please pray that Europe’s Evangelical Christianity may find healing for its Eschatological Paralysis. On November 16-17 we hope to launch European Revelation Movement in Kontal, near Stuttgart. It will be led by Andreas Wieland. Besides supporting my writings, European researchers will start working on two projects: The Spiritual History of Switzerland and The Spiritual History of Germany. The Germans are already using Facebook and Websites effectively. A separate YouTube channel will also be launched as I have over 100 lectures in English-German. Since Universities are destroying nations, from Feb 18-22 about 40 of us will meet in South Korea to launch a Cyber University. Initially it will offer Bachelor and Masters degrees in Applied Theology and Leadership. The long term goal is to return non-sacred (secular) education to local Church-based system of discipling nations through education. Thank you for your prayers and financial support. Your donations are needed to support our growing creative, editorial, promotional and administrative teams.

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Vishal Mangalwadi: American News

America is facing a little problem

America is facing a little problem: The President says that the world’s freest, most educated, powerful, and resourceful media is “Fakenews.” That is, news reporters no longer bear witness to the truth. They spin stories to serve the interests of their paymasters. The Press returns the compliment: the President is Post-truth. Meaning: don’t trust the President you elected. He is the figurehead of a culture that believes in manipulation, not Truth. Enemies fighting culture-wars agree simultaneously with the President and the Press: “American leaders, press, and media moguls should not be trusted. They are products of an education that does not believe in Truth.” Americans disagree on WHO is the bigger problem: Politicians or the Illegal Immigrants. They debate WHAT is a greater problem: Immigration or ever-increasing Debt, Economy or secular Education, Terrorism or Guns, China or North Korea, collapsing Family or increasing Immorality . . . but they agree that The American eagle is in a free fall  Federal Debt is over 22 trillion dollars. It is increasing every second. Leaders no longer know how to manage the nation’s revenue. Federal Government has over-promised $122 trillions for Social Security, Medicare etc. No one has any clue as to where this amount will come from. President George W Bush called Social Security a gigantic Ponzi scheme. He warned that it will sink the world’s largest economy. The problem was acknowledged forcefully, even though President Bush was powerless to do anything about it. His successors, Obama and Trump, have been wiser. They have closed their eyes to the Time Bomb ticking away at the heart of the nation. President Obama knew and Trump knows that they cannot defuse the bomb. There are politicians with so much passion for the poor that they are willing to sink the nation. They want the world to lend $1 trillion more to teach American students NOT to keep their word and NOT to pay their debts. Some Wannabe Presidents want the nation to borrow more or tax more to offer free healthcare and education to every citizen and immigrant — legal or illegal. Many voters applaud these proposals to drown the nation in debt and tax. Why? They think that America’s untrustworthy professors and politicians may be smarter than their forefathers who actually built the world’s greatest economy. American eagle is falling: where will it crash? Possibilities are plenty: — Uncle SAM has given to itself the power to print unlimited numbers of dollars. Printing can pay back every penny. After all, a dollar is just a piece of paper with a promise from a government that Americans elect but don’t trust! — A future President can choose to default. He can blame the creditors for lending to his predecessors who were compulsive gamblers. Would the world then stop lending? Of course, it will! Would that create some difficulties? Well, strong leaders know how to deal with difficult people. Between 1976-83, not even a generation ago, Argentine defaulted. Money stopped flowing in. Massive unemployment and protests followed. None of that bothered the government. It just arrested the protestors. A few days later the prisoners were told to dance to loud music for they were being sent south to freedom. Exhausted prisoners were “vaccinated” for their journey into liberty. As soon as they became too drowsy to resist, they were stripped naked, dumped into trucks, loaded onto aircrafts, and thrown into the Atlantic ocean. “May be! But American is different. It was built on ‘self-evident truths’ that all men are ‘endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life’ That is true. North and south Americas were built on different worldview foundations. Northern revolution was inspired by the Bible. The Southern revolutionaries such as Simon Bolivar were informed by the Enlightenment. Boliver carried three books on his military campaigns: Montesquie’s Spirit of the Laws, Adam Smith’s Wealth of the Nations, and Voltaire’s Essays on why England was doing better than France. The Bible was the International Border between North and South America. But does that matter now? The “truths” on which the USA was built have become toothless. They are assumed to be outdated “Bible stories.” Did God create Adam and Eve? Did Evolution command mosquitos to NOT kill human babies? — A likely place for the Eagle’s crash is WW3. God’s children are Peacemakers. But the Devil also has his children in strategic places. Not too long ago they incited Uncle SAM to start unjust wars in the Middle East. Those powerful lobbies are eager to do it again: ‘Use your awesome military might to ignite a global war: Arms-industry needs to dump aging inventory; industrial sector needs a boost; Wall-Street needs new investors. A victorious war will allow you to restructure global economy. Didn’t WW2 bring America out of its greatest ever recession?’ — Yes, the American eagle is in a free-fall . . . but does it have to crash-land into the Devil’s snare? Isn’t there an option to cry out to the Loving Father? Can’t He bring the Eagle back into its nest? America can return to its earlier ‘sanity’ and ‘morality.’ Its ‘inventiveness’ and ‘work-ethic’ have the ability to create enough wealth to repay debts and bless the world. Such a turn-around needs a spiritual Revival. It will be a new Great Awakening. It will reform America and heal our world. Economists are forced to confront hard data sooner or later. Psychologists and Sociologists on the other hand have greater flexibility to ignore truth. PostTruth era requires them to be true only to their own theories (however false). Their current (relative) truth that they are nothing but animals, legitimizes sexual indiscipline. Suppression of true Truth has so darkened minds that America has turned its temples of learning into Red Light Districts.  Even Date-rapist is acquitted if he was drunk. Where is America headed? It is going the way of Jeffery Epstein. He was a teacher who became multi-millionaire financier and sex-trafficker. A friend of Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump he had interests in high profile

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Vishal Mangalwadi's post about Buddha vs Aristotle vs Christ

WHY “B” WON OVER “A” BUT LOST TO “C” 

WHY “B” (the Buddha/Mysticism) WON OVER “A” (Aristotle/Logic) BUT LOST TO “C” (Church/Revelation) Dear Friends The following is the synopsis of Section II of my new book, “This Book Changed Everything: the Bible’s Amazing Impact On Our World.” In case you missed the synopsis of Section 1 (Chapters 1-3), you can find it on our website. Section II is titled “The West: Losing Its Soul“ Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, rejected the idea that matter alone is real; soul, spirit, the non-material realm of goodness, beauty and truth are mere appearances. Their predecessors, Leucippus and Democritus had taught this “Materialism” in Greece. In ancient India, this philosophy was taught by Charvaka.  Most Greeks and Indians rejected philosophical materialism because it meant that you are nothing but a blob of meat. You survive by gobbling up other meat blobs that fly, swim, crawl or walk. Meat blobs such as mosquitoes and leeches love sucking your blood. Others (lions and sharks) would like to gobble you up. You have no intrinsic meaning, purpose, or value. This atheism implied that the material universe gives no reason why you shouldn’t champion aborting babies or enjoy cannibalism — eating other meat-blobs called “human beings.” There is no Creator, and He never  bestowed upon humans inalienable rights or dignity.  Of course, some people do “think” that eating a human being is a horrible evil. But what is “thought”? Are thoughts and words, grammar, logic, and ethics anything more than chemical reactions in a meat-blob? Can words have anything to do with truth? Didn’t accident turn animal sounds into language, to enable us to manipulate our environment? Plato felt that the observable phenomenon may be an appearance, a shadow, but shadows don’t make sense, unless they are images of a reality. There had to be a realm of eternal, non-material Forms, Ideas, or Truth. He called it a world of Logos (Word, Sense, Idea). The reality, soul and truth, had to be non-material, therefore, immortal.  Plato’s disciple Aristotle tried logic. However the Greek logic could not find the Logos (the Word) that they felt must be there. Therefore, Graeco-Roman world was ruled by myths, magic, and mysticism. Its experiments with truthless democracy and republicanism always ended in tyranny.  So, what created the modern world governed by logic and law, reason and ethics; affirming absolute morality, yet respecting individual rights; freedom of conscience, subjecting force to the authority of the spirit — to truth? Section II of “This Book Changed Everything: The Bible’s Amazing Impact On Our World” has four chapters: Chapter 4 is called, “Losing Soul, Logic, and Language”. It explains postmodernism: why Descartes, the Father of European Enlightenment, and his successors failed to prove that man exists as anything more than a blob of meaningless meat. Western immorality that resulted in Holocaust in Europe and genocide of pre-born babies in the USA is a consequence of Rationalism’s failure that began with Descartes and ended with Derrida. The chapter studies why Revelation made sense of human person, logic and language. Chapter 5 is called “Marginalizing the Center: The Church”. It explains the central role played by the Church’s Councils, Creeds, Catechisms, and Communities in civilizing Europe. Chapter 6, studies “Law and Liberty: Did Rome Put the Law above Caesars?” It revisits the West’s most important contribution to civilization — the rule of law. Beginning with the great Church Councils such as Chalcedon that set the stage for the Justinian Code, the chapter unpacks the Bible’s amazing contribution of liberty based on the rule of law. Chapter 7, “Bloodshed for Tolerance” looks at classical Europe’s intolerance and bloody “religious” wars of the Middle Ages in order to understand how the Bible succeeded in using African intellectuals such as Tertullian and Lactantius to institutionalize tolerance in Europe.  The Bible created the West, it reformed the West, and it can renew the post truth West again. A group of us are meeting in Phoenix, AZ from June 24-29, 2019 to begin an education revolution. Local churches will be equipped to partner with Christian universities and use web-based curricula. They will help grow the home-schooling movement into a church college movement. Please contribute $100 or more to support key non-American participants to travel to Phoenix. You will get a signed copy of the new book and a tax deductible receipt minus $25. Yours for the renewal of America’s soul, Vishal & Ruth Mangalwadi   PS. The following is the back-cover of the new book

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Vishal Mangalwadi's post about Al Jazeera’s report “Babies for sale” in Malaysia. And on abortion

MAKING SENSE OF OUR AGE OF NONSENSE

Photos refer to: (1)AlJazeera’s report “Babies for sale” in Malaysia. (2) Medical students in Indiana University buy body parts of aborted babies. An American activist protests against Asian couples selling their daughters. Next day she marches for her right to abort her own baby, even if her baby’s cut-up body-parts are sold to the highest bidder. Vermont’s ‘Republican’ Governor, Phil Scott, signs a bill that his state gives a mother the right to murder the 9-month old baby in her womb. Louisiana’s ‘Democratic’ Governor, John Bel Edwards, signs an opposite bill: his state bans abortions once a baby’s heartbeat is detectable. Well, the confused American activist judges Asian culture to be immoral because her parents’ taught her that a ‘person’ must not be bought, caged and auctioned like an ‘animal.’ She fights for her right to sell her baby’s body-parts because her university teaches that a ‘person’ is just a blob of meat. “Personhood” is an artificial construct of a language shaped by the Bible, this outdated idea implies human dignity, inalienable rights to life and liberty, conscience, male and female. The Bible “misled” the West into believing that human beings were different than animals and robots because they were persons, made in God’s image. Animals killed can be eaten; robots don’t require funerals … but a human’s dignity has to be affirmed even after his death. God’s command, “Thou shall not commit murder” gave to every human being a right to life. The state can take that right away because, as Nietzche lamented, the Enlightenment murdered God. The postmodern university teaches that even though every cell and every atom is “information”, our Creator cannot possibly communicate His commands. Take another insanity: a democratic Britain votes to be a sovereign nation independent of EU’s control. Some Members of her Parliament elected by the same voters, treat the voice of sovereign citizens as the voice of the Devil. How can that be? Well, . . . the ideas of sovereignty of nations and citizens came from the Bible. Without the Bible the west has no choice but to revert back to the pagan idea of empire. It was the Bible that taught that God demolished the imperial city of Babel to create sovereign nations. God’s kingdom undermines empires. His light shows nations the path to become great nations. . . when sinful citizens are given the authority to become God’s children, they sit on their Father’s throne (Revelation 3:21) as “kings”. If you want to make sense of our age of nonsense, please go on Amazon.com and buy my latest book, “This Book Changed Everything: The Bible’s Amazing Impact on Our World.” If you prefer a signed copy, please donate $50 or more online at www.RevelationMovement.com The upcoming Phoenix Consultation (June 24-29) urgently needs your financial support. Key people from 10 or so nations will meet to plan an education revolution (June 25-27) that will equip local churches to offer high quality, accredited, affordable online education. In partnership with universities, local churches will disciple nations by taking education back from the Devil. On June 29, the participants will guide our desire to make a Docuseries, “A Bus Journey to Find the Lost Soul of the West.” In this Reality TV type series, six or so international scholars will take a bus journey with a film crew to visit locations where the modern world was made. They will meet with experts and ask: what role did Greece and Rome; Paganism, Christianity, and atheism; Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment play in creating the modern world. The investigators will test the thesis that the Bible created the modern world; without its light the West is lost in the darkness of its own making. Education is a process of civilising individuals. Therefore, Phoenix Consultation is about reviving civilization’s soul. It will enable churches in Africa, Asia, South and North America to fulfill the Great Commission to disciple nations. They will marinate the next generations in Truth and Virtue. Thank you for your prayers and financial support Vishal Mangalwadi

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Vishal Mangalwadi's blog on "Has Homosexuality won America?"

AMERICA: READY TO ELECT A HOMOSEXUAL PRESIDENT?

May 13, 2019 cover story of TIME magazine features America’s (future) “First Family” — Pete Buttigieg, an Episcopalian Mayor of the city of South Bend, and “his” husband, Chasten Glezman. In 2015, at the peak of his campaign to be re-elected as city Mayor, Buttigieg declared that he was a homosexual. He won the election with 80% of the votes. The TIME says that today 67% Americans, including 44% Republicans, support homosexual marriage. The TIME Is not saying that he will win Democratic nomination or the race. It is saying that homosexuality has won America. Why? The short answer is that evangelicalism forgot that winning souls means winning minds. A majority of American theologians, including many evangelicals, believe that the Bible is a collection of “stories”: For many, Genesis 1-11 are definitely stories. The earlier idea that God made man in His image, male and female, is a “story”. If so, what exactly is maleness and femaleness? Indian Bhagwan Osho Rajneesh (1931-“90) taught Americans that reality is one. All dualism, including male and female, good and evil is an illusion created by the intellect. (For details please see my chapter on Rajneesh in “The World of Gurus”) Hippies and the New Age movement learnt Hindu/Buddhist Tantric physiology that everyone of us has male and female energies within us. The female energy “Kundalini” is the Serpent Power at the base of our spine. It lies dormant in a psychic center or “chakra”. Meditation, especially sexual meditation, arouses it. Once awakened, the Kundalini power travels up through the spine and passes through five chakras, giving psychic (spiritual) experiences to the meditator. Finally, the female energy merges with the male (Shiva) energy at the 7th “Crown chakra”. At that point, the meditator attains enlightenment, for the male and the female energies within him become one. Traditional Christian marriage assumes that we are finite. I am male, not a female. I need my wife to become whole. But what if I am infinite . . . if Brahma (infinite God) is within me. Then my idea that I am a male, incomplete, finite, is an illusion. For the female is already within me. In order to realize my divinity, infinity, oneness, I must renounce marriage and awaken the feminine within me. This is a basic reason why serious Hindus and Buddhists, seeking spiritual enlightenment, begin their spiritual quest by renouncing marriage. This is called “Brahmacharya”. It is often mistranslated as “celibacy” which means, renouncing sex. Brahmacharis (such as Mahatma Gandhi or Rajneesh) renounce marriage but indulge in sex in order to experience oneness within (that is, to become God). Carl Jung, the famous Swiss Psychoanalyst, visited India in 1936-’37 and brought this Indian perspective to the West. He gave scientific sounding names, “anima” and “animus”, to male and female energies. Both, he said, are present within everyone (for God never made us male and female). It has taken a few generations for America’s mega-charismatic-evangelical churches, such as Bethel in Redding, to start seeking kundalini spirits. If Genesis 1-11 are “stories” then, obviously, *** (As President Obama says) one of America’s foundational ideas that all men are created equal in God’s image is a “story.” Revelation requires faith or obedience, a story does not. *** The revealed idea was that the ultimate purpose of human sexuality was to make us rulers. Now that is deemed to be a “story”. That means God did not actually bring Eve to Adam. He did not actually ask the two to become one in a permanent marriage, to be fruitful (have children) and nurture them in such a way so that they could establish their dominion on the earth and rule over it as God’s children. Perceiving Genesis as stories gives human beings the right to make up their own story that sex evolved for fun, not for binding one permanently to his/her spouse. *** If Genesis is stories, then the idea of sin, including adultery and sodomy, are outdated stories. Human beings are not fallen sinners. The belief that they will be held accountable for their sin, including sexual sin, is merely a religious story. There is no revelation from a Holy God. There is no standard of sexual holiness that God requires. There is no final judgment. Is there a reason now why a President should not invent his own morality and use the White House as a harem? Why shouldn’t the White House organize orgies as do American universities and colleges? America is lost. American Christianity handed over to the Devil, the responsibility to disciple/educate its own children. Therefore, from June 25-29, some of us are gathering in Phoenix, AZ to begin an education revolution. It seeks to turn every church into a web-based college classroom. Students will enroll in Christian universities, but go to local churches, Monday to Friday, to attend classes online under Academic Pastors. An Academic Pastor is a Youth Pastor Version 2.0. He/she is a home schooling mom or dad, credentialed to become Church-College parent. Visionary universities, church leaders, and individuals are coming to Phoenix from Uganda, Zambia, Indonesia, India, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and the USA to this low-key, yet strategic, Consultation. To learn more, please visit www.RevelationMovement.com. Please pray for the financial needs of participants keen to disciple their nations. For every donation of $100 or more you will receive a signed copy of “This Book Changed Everything: The Bible’s Amazing Impact on Our World.” The book explains why Buddhist Enlightenment is winning the West. Why the world’s freest and the strongest press has become Fake News. Why most Americans no longer trust their post-truth politicians.

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BLESSING AFRICA: AFTER AID IS DEAD [A German Magazine interviews Vishal Mangalwadi]

(Question 1) A great deal of development aid has already been provided in Africa. Why does nothing seem to change? Finland and Switzerland are among the most developed nations in Europe. No one gave them any aid. Nor did they go out to colonize other nations. In fact, they are better developed than European nations that looted their colonies e.g., Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France, and Russia. Land, natural resources, climate and people are a nation’s hardware. The ‘word’ — language, laws, literature — is a nation’s software: its soul. Language carries the ideas that bind a people into a common culture and drive their institutions. Reformed nations developed because they educated the soul — minds, hearts, character — with God’s “word.” Dambisa Moyo, Zambian economist, educated in Harvard and Oxford, is the author of “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa.” She states that aid worth US$1 trillion was given to Africa over five decade. Some of it helped, but most aid has hindered sustainable, long term development. Aid (i.e. injecting capital) deals with the hardware. It doesn’t change a nation’s soul — the software. Education addresses the soul. In most of Africa, “modern” education came about a century ago. Most universities taught materialistic (non-spiritual, secular) worldview which deceived African nations into thinking that financial aid or loot is the secret of economic development. Therefore, ambitious individuals, who cannot go out to colonize other nations, fight with each other to loot their own nation, its resources, including aid dollars. The failure of aid shows that the secular belief is false that economics drives the world. Europe’s Reformation believed that material progress takes place when we seek God’s kingdom and righteousness. Secularism has failed in Africa, just as it failed in most of Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America. (Question 2) There are more and more Christians in Africa. Should the countries / the continent not be better off with the new Christian values? Indeed, a country such as Uganda is 84% Christian. It became an independent nation in 1962. Since then its governments have changed nine times. Yet, not a single transfer of power has been peaceful. Its constitutions have been “democratic” but military and militia leaders have had to kill each other to capture power. By the time the British established Uganda’s first university (1922), their own “Christian” universities had become secular. They taught “Liberalism” which has deceived the West as well as the brightest of Ugandan leaders. The sadder truth is that the 20th Century “Conservative” Evangelicalism which evangelized Africa became anti-intellectual and escapist. All it wanted was for Jesus to come back and take Christian souls to their mansions in heaven. It promoted ethical “values” for personal behavior but forgot the Reformation’s rich social (political, legal, ethical, economic, literary, educational, scientific) legacy. This modern evangelical Gospel “saved souls.” It had little light to guide nations. It had no power to reform, heal and bless Africa. For example, the traditional African mind understood “tribes”, “chiefdoms”, “kingdoms” and colonialism. It had no concept of “nation.” This point is explained in my new book, “This Book Changed Everything: The Bible’s Amazing Impact On Our World” [In German, “Die Seele des Westens” (Fontis, September 2019)]. Through the Atlantic Charter (1941) American President, Franklin Roosevelt, forced European empires to end imperialism. Therefore, following WW2, African colonies were made “nations.” But, no one taught former colonies how to become great nations. In fact European intellectuals began to despise the idea of nation.For prior to WW2, the Fascists had separated the idea of “nation” from the Bible. That made them abuse virtues such as “nationalism.” The Fascist corruption of nationalism, made it a repulsive word for the secularists who did not read the Bible. The Evangelical seminaries lacked the competence and the confidence to apply the Bible to politics. In fact terms such as ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ make them nervous, even though, the Bible says that the Bride of Christ is glorified so that she may give light to the nations (Rev 21: 22-24). The Bride becomes the New Jerusalem so that it may produce tress whose leaves are for the healing of the nations (Rev 22:2). Evangelical theology became so individualistic that it became irrelevant for public life. It marginalized even the church, which use to be the centre of every village and town in Europe. Earlier, to reform the Church meant reforming a nation. For the church embodied a nation’s soul: its music, art, architecture, core ideas. Africa is in trouble because, as the Lausanne Congress observed in 1974, the default Evangelical eschatology has paralyzed the church. A new reformation or theological ferment is needed to equip the church to transform African nations. (Question 3) Some experts think that help makes people dependent. Would it not be consistent to withdraw aid from African countries? Does that mean that we would starve people to death? The Lord Jesus fed the hungry with bread and fish. When they came back for more bread, he refused to feed them. He pointed them to the true bread (John 6), to the real water of life — himself (John 7: 38). For “man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.” (Matthew 4: 4; Deut 8:3). The soul food, the software — the word — matters. Birds and animals look for bread. They don’t mind stealing it. We object to theft and loot for Man is different than animals. He was created in the Creator’s image to be creative. We are to grow grain or buy it in order to make or buy bread. We need to earn enough to share food with the needy, including with birds and animals. Secular (Communist) education and economy starved millions in Russia. It is starving people today in resource rich Venezuela. Socialist education-economy, sustained by aid and subsidies, keeps driving Indian farmers to suicide. German leaders ought to learn from

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WILL INDIA EXPLODE?

Not too long ago, “experts” were claiming that BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries would soon become like “First World” economies. Now, Indian voters, seem set to throw out the present government in the next three months. Why? Several studies show that as many as 45 desperate farmers-in-debt kill themselves everyday! Influential groups of “Forward” caste farmers — Patels, Jats, Marathas, Gujjars — keep organizing protest marches to demand “Reservations” (quota) in government jobs and educational institutions. Last month the government tried to appease them by granting 10% reservations to the poor among them. (Usually the well-to-do will have the resources to bribe and get the certificate that they are poor.) Rural voters number 67% of India. In order to woo their votes, Rahul Gandhi, the President of the Congress Party, is promising to waive farmers’ debts, if voted to power. Who will bear that burden? Will Rahul further bankrupt our banks? Hindutva is ‘partly’ right: India’s current agrarian crisis is a result of socialism championed by Rahul’s great-grandfather, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. European Enlightenment deceived good Indians such as our first Prime Minister. Their intentions were noble when they distributed land to the landless. Except that in the second generation a 10 acre had to be divided among 3 sons. The third generation was left with one or less acre. That is too small a plot to feed one family, let alone also a pair of oxen. The 10 acre plot should have remained with one of the sons. Other children should have been educated to process or market agri-products or innovate and maintain machinery and manure to improve food production. Thus, the “agrarian crisis” is an education-crisis. Nehruji banned visas for missionary who were educating the poor. He championed the state-operated socialist, secular education which has turned out to be a disaster . . . and not just in India. The following article, “Simple Arithmetic” points out that Secular Britain, which deceived Nehru, is also a victim of the foolishness it taught our leaders. A cashier and a manager in a grocery shop in UK do not know how to calculate 10% of £1.20. State-run education did not make Britain “Great”. Good salaries do not inspire teachers to love and educate their pupil well. Protestant nations became history’s greatest nations because the Bible taught them that teaching everyone was a mandate given to the church. Today many Christians think that ‘God wants all men to be saved and go to heaven.’ The Bible, on the other hand, taught Europe’s reformers that, “God wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2: 4). Today a typical pastor works much like a Hindu “Pujari” (priest), performing religious rituals. St. Paul said that as an apostle, his job was to be a “preacher” and a “teacher of the truth to gentiles.” (1 Timothy 2: 7; Titus 1: 1). A typical school teacher rarely knows his students and their families. A pastor-teacher knows a student, his siblings, parents, and grandparents. They have a relationship. This makes educating a child a community affair. His extended family and church gets engaged in making a child what he/she can and wants to become. Secular/socialist education has corrupted not just nations, it has corrupted church’s understanding of its own mission. Far too many churches think that they are sent NOT to “disciple nations” (Matthew 28:18) but to prepare souls to get “raptured” out of this earth into the heavens. The above is not meant to deny that some churches run some of the “best” schools in nations such as India. However, today’s “Christian” education is very different than the education that created great nations such as UK. Reformer Martin Luther pioneered modern education because the Bible taught him that Jesus shed his blood on the cross to purchase Satan’s slaves to make them God’s sons, so that they might serve their Father as kings and priests. (Revelation 5: 9-10). A priest needs education because he has to know God. For reformers such as Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Beza, Knox, Melville, Comenius, Francke, universal education was an implication of the New Testament’s doctrine of “Priesthood of all believers.” Today’s tragedy is that much of Christian education has become the “Priesthood of RICH believers.” Generally, a family has to be rich enough to send their children to “Christian” schools. These schools still produce “priests” but these post-modern priests serve the god Jesus called “mammon” (money). They go to Christian schools and colleges to make money — not to serve their nations! Thankfully — a new reformation is getting started. The leadership of about 30,000 Pentecostal churches in Uganda has decided to turn their churches into centers of 21st century education. Beginning in August 2019, their leaders/pastors will enroll in a university in an Online BA in Applied Theology. Among other things the course will equip them to become Academic Pastors (apostle Paul like Pastors-Masters/ Preachers-Teachers). The university will transmit its curriculum to the remotest village via satellite. Once these pastors have learned how to educate themselves using online curriculum . . . they will become Academic Pastors in their own churches. As a centre of Hybrid – digital learning in small groups – the church will impart the finest education at affordable price to the poorest. African children living in jungles or slums, learning math through programs such as Khan Academy and Prodigy, will be able to compete with students in Britain’s state schools, Dedicated groups are making serious efforts to take this new model of education to many countries, including to India, and the USA. American church has the capacity to reform the USA, by turning 100,000 churches into centers of 21st century, hybrid, affordable eduction. What the American church lacks is a theology of discipling nations. Your participation is cordially invited. Details will soon be available on www.RevelationMovement.com

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The Woman Behind the West’s Economic Success – Reformation Series #2

Five hundred years ago my country, India, had more wealth than Europe. Then, suddenly, some countries rapidly overtook us. What happened?It is tempting to credit the West’s success to greed, guns, germs and steel. These did play a role. A responsible analysis, however, cannot overlook the impact of the Protestant Reformation.Economics has become such a complicated subject that it is difficult for many to understand a simple secret of the West’s progress. That secret was a woman — Mrs. Katherine Luther.Katherine von Bora was a runaway nun who married a monk, Martin Luther. She began the change that Sociologist Max Weber discussed in his classic, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.”The newly married nun and monk had no money to buy a house. Therefore, the local Prince, the patron of Luther’s university, gave them the empty monastery.But how was Katie to maintain a large house on her husband’s meagre salary? She turned her home into a paying guest-house for university students. That required her to feed 30-40 people every day. How do you feed so many people?Katie started growing her own fruit and vegetables. Then, she turned her home into an animal farm. The money she saved was invested in a second, third, and fourth piece of land. One had a creek flowing through it. Katie turned it into a fish-pond!By 1542, the Luthers owned more real-estate in Wittenberg than any other citizen. As soon as she bought land, Katie began developing it. Farms needed buildings for agriculture as well as housing her employees, so Katie became a builder, too.Back then, cities did not provide clean drinking water. Therefore, Katie ran a brewery. One can still buy “Luther Beer” in Wittenberg. Martin taught the Bible’s work-ethic. Katie practiced it.Had Martin Luther followed the Buddha as his guru, he would have remained a religious ascetic, begging for his food. But Luther followed the Bible. It condemned laziness as sin. God’s commandment, “You shall not covet” meant that people must create wealth. The eighth commandment, “You shall not steal”, meant that every person had a right to his property. While the state was responsible for protecting a citizen’s property, the family and church were responsible for producing citizens that would not steal a neighbor’s produce.I grew up in North India. The land and climate were perfect for growing all kinds of vegetables and fruit. This could have created vibrant ag-industry. But the average peasant did not grow them, because upper-caste men would come to his farm in broad daylight to help themselves to his produce. If he left his wife to protect his farm, she would be raped.Had Katie lived in the Soviet Union, she would have had no motivation to buy lands and develop them. Atheism does not believe that “You shall not steal” is God’s command. That gives the powerful the right to take your land.Katherine Luther did much more than feed a few dozen students. She changed history.There had been many reform movements in the Middle Ages – Dominicans, Francians, Moravian Brethren and Waldenses – to name a few. By “reform” they meant renouncing wealth and embracing poverty. Katie and Martin began with vows of poverty . . . gradually they understood that to be godly meant to be creative, like the Creator. Every day, Katie helped her husband disciple Germany’s future spiritual and intellectual leaders. She transmitted to German pastors the Bible’s spirit of economic enterprise: the art of making honest money with whatever little you have.At dinner, the boys would often ask her husband questions and take notes. These discussions applied the Bible to everyday life, including the economic life of ordinary families. They were published as Martin Luther’s Table Talks. They enabled scholars such as Max Weber to understand how Luther’s exposition of the Bible created Europe’s spirit of Capitalism.[This is episode 2 of the first ten videos celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation – the source of modern economic miracle. Please share it and help us produce more videos by donating on www.RevelationMovement.com]

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Why the West Attracts Immigrants – Reformation Series #1

(Celebrating the Reformation with Vishal Mangalwadi-1)Immigration has become a major challenge to the West.People want to migrate to the West because it respects individual rights and freedoms. It believes in human dignity and equality. It puts law over rulers and stands for good education. The West has been the engine for scientific and technological advance.But the West was not always like this. And, once again, it is changing before our eyes.Although it is still the least corrupt and best developed part of the world, now it labels itself as Post-Truth. People no longer trust their politicians, the press, and even the integrity of some of their scientists and industry.So, what made the modern West a civilization that believed in Truth?Two thousand years ago, a Roman Governor was able to declare a public figure innocent and then go on to crucify him. How could he do that? Didn’t he know that he was violating his fundamental right to life and destroying the people’s trust in the judicial system?Well, back then the West did not rely on trust. It terrorized people into submission.It did not believe in truth because the Greeks had learned that the human mind, left to itself, could not know truth. Therefore, like my culture in India the Graeco-Roman culture was also built on myths, magic, and mysticism.A return to Truth created the modern West. Let me illustrate.I was trying to buy Tram tickets in Amsterdam. I asked two Americans:“How does this machine work?”“Why do you want to buy tickets?” they said. “We’ve been travelling around for two days. No one has come to check tickets.”I was amazed: How did Holland create a society that could trust its citizens? And why is the new generation rejecting the morality that resulted in the West’s unique freedom and prosperity?Five hundred years ago, the Premodern West was as corrupt as my nation. What caused the change was a movement called The Reformation.The Reformers were rebels. Most rebellions destroy. However, Sixteenth Century reformers succeeded because they enthroned Truth above themselves and their religion.Can we know Truth?The Reformers sought Truth because they believed in a Creator who knows truth, and communicates it just as a father teaches truth to his children. The reformers followed the Bible’s teaching articulated best by St. Augustine: The human mind was made in God’s image. Therefore, it can and ought to seek Truth. This faith in knowable – revealed and rational truth made the West a uniquely thinking civilization.In contrast, Buddhist monks in China didn’t read the books they received. Their sacred texts taught them that words cannot communicate truth. Therefore, they stopped reading and, instead, they meditated on the ‘sacred’ sound of their rotating bookcases.The Bible transformed Holland because it inspired the reformed church to educate everyone. Education grounded in the Bible cultivated love for truth and virtue.Pagans made up their own gods. Likewise, the Postmodern West is like the premodern Pagan age. Both reject objective truth and morality. They make up their own “truths” and moral values. Flexible morality destroys a society’s moral capital. It makes it impossible to trust each other!By becoming Post-Christian, the West has naturally become Postmodern and Post-Truth. It has amputated its soul, the Bible, which created the modern world. Once again human opinions, feelings and vested interests claim authority over Truth.The quest for truth was the engine of the West’s intellectual, economic and social success. Losing truth means losing trust. To lose trust is to lose peace, progress and prosperity.Truth matters.Therefore, this video series will explore why the Bible created the Modern Age of Truth.Please subscribe to the YouTube channel “Truth Matters” and share this video-series with your friendsThank youVishal Mangalwadi

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BRITAIN’S GREATEST GIFT TO INDIA — The Bible

Dear Friends,Ruth and I will be in British Parliament on October 23 to present to the Members of Parliament the case for the Bible as “The Book that Made Your World.” This is fitting since the Bible is the greatest gift that the British gave to India.It is also a wonderful way to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation that gave us Tyndale’s English New Testament and transformed medieval nations into modern Great Britain.Thanks to men such as William Carey, Henry Martin, and Claudius Buchanan, the Bible translators turned Indian vernaculars into literary languages. With that linguistic revolution came printing, publishing, press, literature, journalism, modern education, intellectual and social awakening.Majority of the Bible translations happened in Calcutta, after 1800, in the Fort William College. Three days a week Carey helped train civil servants in that college. The Bible became the book that transformed the corrupt administration of the British East India Company into the honest “steel frame” of clean governance.The Bible taught us that India should not be divided into petty, quarrelling kingdoms such as Israel and Judah; nor united under empires such as Mogul, Maratha, Sikh or British. God desired India to be a nation, a free nation, and a great nation, ruled not by sinful men, but by laws reflecting divine justice and righteousness.It was through the Bible that we learnt that God did not want us make up our own gods or worship creation — natural or demonic. He commands us to seek Truth and worship God in spirit and in truth.The Bible brought to India that idea of human equality that is unleashing the potential of every individual. It taught us that everyone — male and female — is created with the dignity of God’s likeness. The Bible revealed to us a secret of building great nations: strong families where a man has only one wife, and fathers his children like our Father in heaven.Thanks to hardworking, Bible-driven visionaries such as William Carey, Sam Higginbottom, and Norman Borlaug, India — a land of famines — is now a land flowing with milk and honey. It is the world’s largest producer of milk and exports food and fruit.Independent India acknowledged its profound intellectual, moral, social and political debt to Great Britain when it chose to govern itself not through Rajas and Maharajas, Sultans and Badshahs, but with Westminster style Parliament.Why did British Parliament became a model for our nation?Britain’s parliamentary governance did not come from Greek democratic states such as Athens. Greek city-state did not have parliaments. The British system developed because the Bible taught that God’s kingdom is managed by Elders (Revelation 4:4 etc.).Why do citizens elect Britain’s rulers? Great Britain adopted “Popular Sovereignty” as its model because Moses commanded the liberated slaves to choose their own leaders (Deuteronomy 1: 9-18). Why does the Prime Minister have greater power than the Monarch? India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, taught us Britain’s secret. He was India’s ‘First Servant’ he said, because that is what the title “Prime Minister” literally meant. This radical political idea began when the King of kings and the Lord of lords washed the feet of his disciples. He taught them that rulers lord it over their people in cultures that do not know God. He, the Messiah, had come to inaugurate a new kingdom in which rulers will become servants: For he came not to be served but to serve and to give his life for salvation of many.British Parliament became a model for India because Christian Members of Parliament, such as William Wilberforce, made it the conscience of the nation. When he became an MP, the Parliament was a gentlemen’s club. It served the interest of the club members. MPs resisted abolishing slave trade for two decades because they were the beneficiaries of that lucrative, reprehensible, trade.British Parliament became a model for many nations because the Bible transformed it. It will be my honor to reintroduce to some of the current MPs, “The Book That Made Your World.”This important assignment needs your prayers . . . and your help.The organizers would like to give a copy of the book to MPs along with the formal invitation.Thank you,Vishal MangalwadiWe need £3,500 for the books. Please consider donating.

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