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Where Is Joey?: Lost Among the Hare Krishnas
Published in Hardcover by Ohio Univ Pr (Trd) (1981)
Author: Morris. Yanoff
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Garbage Dump
What can I say about this book, except it is very preachy and lame. The author is a conservative Jew, and while there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, as it is a bonefide religion which can help you achieve some level of Godly devotion, so is Vaishnavism, AKA Hare Krishna.

Yanoff ridicules the religion by saying we believe that the real moon is millions of miles away like the sun and our account of Heaven, the planet "Goloka", or "Krishnaloka", is bogus. Who is he to make such assertations. Maybe we don't believe in the moon being 184,000 miles away like the science books suggest, but let me point out that Mr. Yanoff as a Jew believes that dinosaur bones are planted there by Satan to derail people from believing in God because earth only existed for 5,000 years.

Apparently there is proof the earth has existed for many many millions of years (as verified in Vedic and Hare Krishna literature). Are we picking on Jewish people for having views contrary to those expressed in science? No we're not. So why should he attack our views? He is just bitter and xenophobic. This whole book comes off as xenophobic and bitter. You're better off not reading it.


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