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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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<div id="ConversationwithDevoteesonTheologyApril11975Mayapur_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="41" link="Conversation with Devotees on Theology -- April 1, 1975, Mayapur" link_text="Conversation with Devotees on Theology -- April 1, 1975, Mayapur">
<div class="heading">We are all Christians.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Devotees on Theology -- April 1, 1975, Mayapur|Conversation with Devotees on Theology -- April 1, 1975, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Acyutānanda: There's a single serious way. You can say, "Look, you've been sitting here since St. Paul, and you haven't arrived at anything except discussion, and you're bluffing the whole public that you're doing some advanced research and taking salaries and..."</p>
<p>Ravīndra-svarūpa: But, but we have to convince them.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: But how can you convince them...?</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: We'll convince them that they haven't come to any conclusion.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: Yeah, how can you convince them if they can't even, they cannot define who is God, they cannot define what is the soul, they cannot define what is the principles of religion?</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: And their leader is breaking all of them.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: They cannot... They can't... They don't even have any disciplic succession. Their śāstra is... They can't agree among them what is the concise śāstra, nor can they agree on what is the importance of accepting śāstra in the first place. They're doing all sinful activities. So then... Then what is there to convince?</p>
<p>Ravīndra-svarūpa: So why not start an authoritative group of Christians who chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, who study the Bible and read the Bhagavad-gītā?</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: We are.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We are all Christians.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Here we are.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: We already are Christians.</p>
<p>Ravīndra-svarūpa: But they are seeing us... They don't accept that, though. If somebody was calling themselves Christians...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That... It is not possible that everyone will accept you. That is not possible.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: They... The Christians on the street, they don't accept because they say, "You have not accepted Christ." I say, "I am following all Christ's teachings." They say, "Well, you haven't been baptized. If you're following all the principles, why not be baptized?"</p>
<p>Ravīndra-svarūpa: I was baptized.</p>
<p>Prajāpati: But this is a... This group of Christians you meet on the street that are fundamentalists following the Bible are very different group from the big Harvard scholars. The theologians that we're concerned with are those that are actually influencing millions of people by their rascaldom.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Do they come up with any big decisions every year and change people's...?</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: I never met anyone who was influenced by any of these theologians. I never even heard of 'em. I never even heard of them till you just started discussing today. (laughter) I don't know anybody in the Western world who's influenced by any theologians.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: No, maybe they set the policies for churches. Maybe they influence them.</p>
<p>Prajāpati: Yes, right.</p>
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