Sir Robert Anderson. Indeed..
A brother from the past with a word for today:
excerpted from Chapter Five of “The Bible or the Church: Sir Robert Anderson
“Lamaism, indeed, with its shaven priests, its bells, and rosaries, its images, and holy water, and gorgeous dresses; its service with double choirs, and processions, and creeds, and mystic rites, and incense, in which the laity are spectators only; its abbots and monks, and nuns of many grades; its worship of the double Virgin, and of the saints and angels; its fasts, confessions, and purgatory; its images, its idols, and its pictures; its huge monasteries, and its gorgeous cathedrals, its powerful hierarchy, its cardinals, its Pope, bears outwardly at least a strong resemblance to Romanism, in spite of the essential difference of its teachings, and of its mode of thought.”
Such is Buddhism in countries where it has made its home. Is it any wonder that when Roman Catholic missionaries settled in certain provinces of China, they were amazed to find all the externals of their own religion ready to their hand; and that a change of images and of nomenclature alone seemed needed to “Christianise” the native cult?
But more than this, both Christianity and Buddhism in their decadence bear a family resemblance to the religions of classic Paganism, and to the old-world cults of Babylon and Egypt. What is common to all is the presence of some material representation of the God, a priesthood and an altar, and mystical rites and ceremonies
This intensely interesting fact has escaped the attention it deserves. How is it to be accounted for? Evolution-talk about “cells and sacs and nerves” and “abnormal reversions” will throw no light on it. Neither dogs, nor donkeys, nor anthropoid apes, display the least appreciation of images, or priests, or millinery, or “incense used ceremonially.” Therefore, even if it were only among degraded races that these frauds and fooleries of human religion prevailed, evolution could claim no hearing. Not so, indeed, if men turned naturally to atheism; for the lapse might fairly be described as an “abnormal reversion.” But atheism is always a revolt against a false religion, and it never maintains its hold upon the minds of men…
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Sir Robert Anderson was former head of Scotland Yard:
Born Dublin, Ireland. Of Scottish descent.Son of Matthew Anderson a Crown Solicitor. Receives a BA from Trinity College Dublin.
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Brought over to London as part of an intelligence branch to combat Fenianism. The branch was soon closed but Anderson remained in London as a Home Office “Advisor in matters relating to political crime”. He was also the controller for the spy Thomas Miller Beach who had penetrated the Fenian movement.
Relieved of all duties except controlling Beach after trouble with Home Secretary Childers.
Secretary of the Prison Commissioners.
Aug - Replaces James Monro as Assistant Commissioner CID.
Retires and is knighted.
Publishes his memoirs “The Lighter Side of My Official Life”
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It is not because Evolution, Islam, Romanism, Buddhism and Judaism is a benefit to anyone who actually believes in it that they believe in it. They believe in it because they are deceived and are being actively deceived by it as the poison of non-creating speech produces a dreamy fascination of it.
Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27