Word: garuda
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...life outside of the movement. The schools' curricula omit science because members of the movement believe it is a domination of the material world. "Science creates the illusion that man is God, man is ruler. However, man will never create life and so will never be the true ruler," Garuda says...
...Garuda has been personally affected by one case of U.S. reaction against the movement. Although he is a Hare Krishna priest, last fall he was denied associate membership to the United Ministries, an ecumenical religious organization...
Henry E. Horn, president of the United Ministries and counselor to Lutheran students at Harvard, says Garuda was not accepted because he is a student doing research and represents a religion not listed in the World Almanac. Horn says he believes Garuda would use his membership to display his religion and try to attract potential followers...
...ISKCON is tax exempt and so is recognized as a faith by the federal government. Garuda has worked with the head chaplains of both Northwestern and Boston Universities, and as the ISKCON minister for universities in the Northeast he has been invited to discuss the movement with students at Brown and Columbia...
...Garuda says that with the stringent requirements one must adhere to in order to become an initiated devotee, a quick hop in and out of ISKCON is impossible. Garuda believes his rejection by the United Ministries is a "possible case of religious prejudice." He believes many people do not accept ISKCON because they identify it as being similar to new religions like Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and the New Light Movement...