Week 32: The Pagan Resurgence
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This is The Confederation Report, a weekly analysis of Canadian news and culture from a Biblical worldview.
Excerpt: On August 3rd, 2025, the tallest idol of Lord Ram in North America was unveiled at the Hindu Heritage Center in Mississauga, Ontario. This towering 51-foot statue now stands as a physical symbol of the Hindu religious worldview.
Opening Words (00:00-00:34)
Part I: Behold, Lord Ram! (00:34–05:35)
On August 3rd, 2025, the tallest idol of Lord Ram in North America was unveiled at the Hindu Heritage Center in Mississauga, Ontario. This towering 51-foot statue now stands as a physical symbol of the Hindu religious worldview.
Part II: Understanding Hinduism (05:35–10:41)
Hinduism, as a pantheistic system affirming the identity of all reality with the impersonal Brahman, rejects the Creator–creation distinction and objective truth, thereby lacking the necessary metaphysical and moral foundations necessary to make sense of created reality.
Part III: Oneism and Twoism (10:41–15:14)
Hinduism, as an expression of the broader Oneist worldview, asserts that all reality is divine and ultimately one with the impersonal Brahman, thereby erasing the Creator–creation distinction and rendering moral and logical categories illusory, whereas Christianity’s Twoist framework uniquely preserves these distinctions, grounding objective truth, morality, and the coherent understanding of reality in the personal, sovereign Creator.
Did You Know? (15:14–16:15)
In November 2018, the Parliament of the World’s Religions met in Toronto, uniting over 200 faiths under the claim that “all religions are one”—a notion that flatly contradicts the biblical truth that salvation is found exclusively in Jesus Christ and reflects how far Canada has fallen from its once-orthodox Christian foundations.
Recommended Resource (16:15–17:03)
This week’s recommended resource is God, Man, the Bible & Life by Steven R. Martins, a series of lectures in Costa Rica’s national universities defending the Bible’s truth, Christ’s exclusive claims, mankind’s need for God, and God’s goodness amid evil, all grounded in the impossibility of the contrary.
Closing Words (17:03–17:44)
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Chapters
1. Opening Words (00:00:00)
2. Part I: Behold, Lord Ram! (00:00:34)
3. Part II: Understanding Hinduism (00:05:35)
4. Part III: Oneism and Twoism (00:10:41)
5. Did You Know? (00:15:14)
6. Recommended Resource (00:16:15)
7. Closing Words (00:17:03)
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