Jeffrey Charles Archer
PO Box 851
Laramie, Wyoming 82073
First Baptist Church
521 S. Broadway
Ada, OK 82073
Dear fellow humans and truth seekers,
I
am writing this letter to let your congregation know that I have
formally renounce my baptism, that occurred when I was abiding in Ada,
and took place in the baptismal on your premises as Trinity Baptist
Church was undergoing renovations. Since my baptism and
ordination, the latter of which I have already sent letters renouncing, I
have come to realize that the teachings of the Baptist faith, and of
modern Christianity in general, are in many respects mistaken. I
appreciate much of the message of Jeshua ben Joseph, and believe he was
very likely an avatar, though not the only avatar (incarnation of a
form of divine being) ever to have lived as a human. I
believe that numerous men and women have existed as avatars on this
planet to help other sentient beings to meet their good potentials.
I
am a trained historian, if somewhat of a dilettante in practice, and
have concluded that it is clear that much of the truth of the origins of
the Christian faith have been obscured, and in some cases
intentionally. The purported founders of the Hebrew
religion, Abraham and his wife Sarah and her maidservant Hagar (touted
as the mother of the Arab peoples) were clearly connected to the
Brahmins, the priestly caste of India. Their migration (or
expulsion) from lands where practices derived from India’s Brahmin
religion led Abraham (or a tribe represented by that name) to adopt a
differing set of beliefs, whether led to do so by his own volition or a
spirit, emblematic of his rejection of or by his former fellow Brahmins. The
obvious analogy of the names Abraham and Sarai and Hagar, to Brahma
(first person of the Hindu Trimurti) and Saraswati (Brahma’s consort)
and Ghaggar (tributary river to the Saraswati river on the Indian
subcontinent)--records of whom predate the Hebrew, Christian and Muslim
founding family led by Abraham--is enough to convince me that much of
the true story has been suppressed.
I
also believe the symbol of the covenant which Abraham made with his
god, the physical violation that is circumcision, is a violation of
human rights. To mangle a child in such a manner is wrong and unnatural. Do not mistake, I am not an anti-Semite. I
have much respect for all peoples and lifeways, insofar as their
customs are not violations of human rights or of what is good and
natural. This rite also clearly is related to a particularly
embarrassing myth about Brahma, though I shan't go into detail regarding
this, which is recorded in my blog at http://karma-dharma-bhutadaya.
The
figure of the second person of the Hindu Trimurti (which translates to
“Trinity”), Vishnu, who is also known as Krishna, very much corresponds
to “Christ” and the religion that is named after that appellation
(though I should note, Jeshua ben Joseph would likely never have been
called Christos, a Greek word meaning “anointed,” during his lifetime. The Hebrew word Messias or
its Aramaic equivalent meaning “anointed” would have more likely been
the word his disciple answered when asked by Jeshua, “Who do you say
that I am?”).
Krishna’s followers are the Gopis which are the ten-thousand milkmaids he makes love to, very much like the term for Jeshua’s followers “the Bride of Christ.” There
is also a story of which I have been made privy which tell of Krishna
having been crucified on a tree and having risen, though I have not as
yet done exhaustive research as to the date of this particular story. Nonetheless, Krishna does predate “Christ’s” advent by a few thousand years.
Siva, the third person of the Hindu Trimurti, wears a crescent moon in his hair. Islam is represented by a crescent moon, though this symbol is said to be attributed to well after Mohammed’s time. Uma is one of the names of Mahadevi (“Great Goddess”), Siva’s consort in motherly form. Ummah is one of the most important tenets of Islam, which means “community.” Another of Siva’s consorts names is Kalima, a wrathful form of Devi (“Goddess”). The primary confession of Islam is one of what they term the “Kalimas.” The
Kaaba, Islam’s temple, was previously a temple to Siva and Kalima, and a
Siva linga stone reportedly remains within the Kaaba. I
have also recently discovered information indicating that “Allah”
without the "h" is one of Durga’s names, another form of Siva’s consort.
These
very clear analogies, and the fact that Hinduism’s Trimurti predates
the Judeo-Christian-Islamic versions, is enough to convince me that much
of the greater story remains to be told, and has in fact been
intentionally suppressed by “Western” scholars and theologians, as well
as those of other traditions. I have also found that my
incorporation of practices and devotion via certain traditions issuing
from India, and specifically Sivite traditions, has proven more
commensurate with my true nature, and with what I have discovered as
rather more honest than the traditions I was led to believe within
traditional Christian dogma. A very interesting fact most
often suppressed by contemporary Christian beliefs is that both Hebrew
people to this day and many early Christians believed in reincarnation.
My
studies of many other systems of belief and traditions throughout what
is known of human (and divine) history reify my convictions of the fact
that much of the truth of the relationships between human beings and
divine being has yet to be disclosed. These and other
factors have led me to the decision that it is proper to renounce my
having been symbolically made “twice-born” (a term also used to denote
the Brahmin caste of India, by the way), as I do not believe that that
is my proper path.
I
do not wish to utterly deny that much good has come from the actions of
Christian peoples (though much violence and evil, also, as by the hands
of nearly every sectarian group), and do wish to encourage the members
of your congregation to continue to act to do good works to help the
needy and to meditate on compassion, kindness, and to search for truth
as said endeavor assist you each in compassionate action and to meet
your fullest potentials as “gods, made to live as the sons of men”
(Psalm 82). Nonetheless, I feel that I ought to inform
your congregation, which was helpful and encouraging to me at a
formative period in my life, of these clear evidences that much of the
truth has been suppressed, and of the aforementioned factors as
motivations to my decision to renounce my baptism.
Blessings,
Jeffrey Charles Archer
Laramie, Wyoming
Similar letters were sent to all those churches with which I had significant interactions or involvement. I am posting this for the record, as I would wish to present myself honestly and without doubt as to the truth of both my own life and personal narrative and the truth of history generally.
namaste
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