I agree with Bricker, though more simply: she really didn’t think it through, and I gather presumes that everyone if harmed has done something terrible in a previous life. (I don’t know enough about the religion to know how it is certain that a particular person HAD a previous life.)
And I agree with Mince about the karmic exchange rates being off in the examples, but then I don’t know that such rates come with a statutory schedule.
Shirley might focus more on the fact she’s (apparently, according to her daughter) a shitty mom, but maybe karmic teachings on doing your best in the current life were skipped … a weird play on “can’t see forest for peculiar trees.”
Sure, ok. But do discriminating human beings really need a piece of parchment or an index to intruct them that stuffing human beings into a box and setting that box on fire or applying toxic gas is not the right thing to do?
Yup. All part of the divine plan guided by love and a desire for self actualization via brutality and horror. The ends justify the means. I can’t stand that new age philosophy. I find the idea of eternal hell less offensive than that, because at least Christians will admit that hell is cruel. new agers try to make evil sound like it is ok.
Are there any religions that accept evolution, accept the evil/unfairness that comes from biology and natural selection, and that still promote the best in humans (empathy, compassion, science)? The closest I can come up with is Jainism, and I think that one is iffy on hitting those marks. Secular humanism too I guess, but that isn’t a religion.
Now, now, you can be a complete idiot without being an antisemite. She was even shitty to the Nazis in her statement.
What kind of horrible shit could you have done in a past life that perpetrating or suffering from genocide somehow fixes it or gets you to that place where you can reach a higher plane?
My vote is for unbelievably stupid and trying to figure out things she’s not prepared to understand, not hatred toward any particular group.
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Only now - through this thread - did I realise that Shirley MacLaine, classic old Hollywood starlet, and Shirley MacLaine, kooky New Age guru, are actually… One and the same person.
Seems to match normal Christian thought. “God has a plan for everyone” is a common enough trope, quickly followed by how mysterious he is and you can’t know what he’s thinking. Maybe some people are here to be bad examples.
