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...United Church of Christ has "omitted" Jesus' virgin birth "so as to emphasize" that he was no more God than Dr. Arndt. Without amendment of this gospel, its followers might easily become the United Church of Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Vishnu...
...ancient King Indradyumna, it is said, sought to find the Lord of the Universe-Jagannath, one of the names of Vishnu, the Preserver. After many hardships, it was miraculously revealed to him that Jagannath would come to him as a log of wood, and soon thereafter a huge log with strange markings appeared, floating in the Bay of Bengal near the city of Puri. The king ordered his carpenters to carve an image from it, but their chisels broke. At last the Lord Vishnu himself appeared, disguised as an old carpenter, and the king agreed...
...there. When the tree is carefully cut down, selected carpenters carve the three images. A priest-his eyes blindfolded, his hands covered with cloth-transfers from the old idol to the new its essential mystery; some say it is a box of quicksilver, some that it is bones from Vishnu himself...
...lucky to be merely killed. In one Kathakali (story-play), a demigod suffered a fate worse than death (because he rejected a nymph's advances); he was transformed into a creature half man, half woman. In another dance-drama an unbelieving king was devoured by the god Vishnu, who relished every morsel-as red streamers representing the king's innards were clawed out of his corpse...
...villagers of Mokhimpur in Uttar Pradesh were nobodies. Spurned by their neighbors because their subcaste was regarded as backward and ignorant, the Baghbhans of Mokhimpur had little to sustain them but their faith in the Hindus' God of Preservation, Vishnu. Some day-the Baghbhans have told each other for generations-Vishnu himself, in his reincarnation as Lord Ramachandra. would turn up in their village in the guise of a sadhu, or holy man, and from then on. all would be well. This faith has long made their village a favorite target for the hordes of self-appointed holy...