Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00030)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar_a" <krishtar_a@b...> 
wrote:
> I discovered that he´s not a god incarnated, but a man with defects 
such as all of us.
> Even so , along all these years of intense activitity, there´s 
never been any man, holy or not holyman, polititian in India during 
these last 50 years who has helped his people as much as he did 
concerning to education, water, public health and hospital and 
schools building.

I think the problemiis that you are not keeping the issues separate.  
You have determined to your satisfaction that Sai Baba is not a god, 
which I sarcastically say "No Jive!" You and Bart seem to be in 
total agreement on this. You have also satisfied yourself that he is 
a philanthropist. That he is a philanthropist does not negate your 
contention that he is not deity and vice versa. So it muddles the 
issue to say that he may be a philanthroopist therefore we cannot say 
how ridiculous it is that he also claims to be a god. A certain well 
known American billionaire may be a philanthropist but if he infected 
someone with HIV and then promised to cure him by means of a miracle 
(a promise which subsequently was not redeemed) we would all wonder 
if the stress of being a tycoon had affected his reason. Fortunately 
the fellow I am thinking of has never done anything of this sort, but 
Sai Baba has.