re: :ghandi to hitler: drugs, guns, & people traff
dlux,
Noel Malcolm is an historian and a former Foreign Editor of the UK Spectator.
Is he a materialist?
Depends on how you define a materialist but then "all" orthodox Christians, if the occultist understanding were applied to them, would qualify as materialists. (Atheists would also qualify, as they are “monists” in this context)
Christianity and Judaism out of which it sprang know nothing of the duality that is common to the "occultist" religions.
Both are very earthy religions and the body is very important. Christianity is insistent that the body is neither evil nor good but is a vital part of what it means to be human. Thus the ultimate redemptive act, in Christianity, is not to liberate the spirit from the "dross" of the (inferior-to-mind) body but to join it in resurrection to a "material" body.
The Christian slogan, contra the occultists could well be "no reincarnation only resurrection".
