Omkar, welcome. Many people who contribute to this forum are ex-BKs who were with the BK organisation for a very long time or maybe for a short time but were deeply involved in centres and with the head administrators and teachers.
Non-BKs of course don't care what this minor Hindu sect believes or doesn't believe. Ex-BKs, however, and various family and friends of BKs do care, because we have seen how the BKs ruin so many lives, not just of the BK but of those who know and care for these individuals who get caught up in the collective delusion. Families split, children abandoned, studies aborted, careers diverted and potentials unrealised ...
Nearly all of the original Om Mandli are dead, Nearly all of the next wave of BKs who joined once the group left Sindh and established in India are ailing, dead or dying. The first generation of foreigners who joined in the 1970s and 80s have reached retirement age or nearly so, many of our contemporaries have died childless or live in poverty without retirement savings because they trusted they were convinced this ”last of 84 births” wouldn’t last so long. People sold houses and took up small flats, donating the excess to the ”rudra Gyan yugya”. Hundreds of thousands of lives distorted or put on hold, all believed and trusted. Many of us left after the falseness became undeniable, we could not suspend disbelief any longer, we couldn't deny the stinking facts under our noses - of corruption, abuses, violence, murders, bribery, nepotism, sophistry, overt and covert racism, caste-ism, favouritism. For me, before most of these crimes came out, it was the lack of intellectual rigour and philosophical integrity, things that matter when such life-affecting claims are made. Things are never seriously questioned, or if they are, not seriously answered, the onus is always put back on the questioner to use suggested yuktis of avoidance, to forget such things and just ”Remember Baba”.
It's 2015, lakhs more people have become BKs. The organisation continually feeds on the enthusiasm (donations) of the newly converted while being steered by the ”commitment" of those whose lives have become so invested in it, taken over by it, they can no longert imagine how else to live.
The BK teaching is a malleable hybrid that changes to suit the need of the time. Which need? The need of the PBKIVV organisation to have an
appearance of credibility. It relies on the faithful BKs to forgive the organisation its steady stream of changes (the old teachings were false? What old teachings? Please forget the revisions and edits), for mixing up of traditional teachings from scriptures with a hotch-potch of Sikh, Muslim, Christian and other ideas, so we get new ”explanations” for Krishna, Shiva, Shankara, Brahma, etc. And you thought they were mythical figures!
We get naive explanations of the world’s great traditional religions that have little bearing on the beautiful deeper truths found in them. They’ll insult or belittle great people so as to make BKs appear superior. We all know that a sign of weakness is the tactic to attack the person rather than what they teach (eg God did not incarnate as Christ, god only teaches BKs. God did not reveal truth through Gabriel to Mohammed, he teaches BKs, Buddha did not achieve awakening to a deeper truth because he does understand what God taught BKs).
It relies on the newly converted remaining ignorant of the many twists and turns of its history.
Would God make so many explicit predictions that fail, as ex-l mentioned, along with implied ones that followed? Would God say so many things that are just plainly wrong, that requires followers to ignore all evidence and logic and take his word for it? (which they do). Would God need all BKs to always reconcile the organisation's schizophrenic (some might say hypocritical) combination of avarice for accumulation of property & money while professing distaste for things material and ”body conscious’? Let alone celebrate it as they do ?
Is it their thought or just a prediction?
The BKs say everything they share through what they teach comes directly from God Shiva, who explains ”Godly Gyan” only to the BKs and directly through the Murli.
The Gyan, including the teaching of a global destruction that will ”cleanse” the world of 7 billion impure people (the rest of us) to create ”Ram Raj” an d”Sat Yuga” for 900,000 BKs-become-deities, ”the Chosen Few”, is therefore not just anyone’s idea or ”just a prediction” but is understood by BKs as the unalterable word of God.
Of course, most religions believe that God’s knowledge holds true, that any predictions are not God ‘speculating' but, based God’s title as Trikaldarshi, his ability to see past, present and future. God (supposedly) has an eyewitness knowledge of events that is beyond question, free of fault, so what need to backtrack, equivocate? . As ex-l said, there is a long history of using carrots and sticks, fear and promises, to sustain the PBKIVV (a.k.a. many other names) i.e. to keep people donating time, money and energy.
Look, everyone will agree with universal ideals - peace, brotherhood, seeign each other as equals. Religiously minded people like to consider these ideas in terms of all humans are ”children” of God . Dualistic idealist thinkers like to divide abstracts and consider them divine and absolute and having "own being”. The egoistically challenged want to feel special and if they can convince themselves that, although all things are one, some ”ones’ are better than other ”ones” , a ”higher” self can exist without a ”lower” self without being a house divided, and is the left-self better than the right-self, or what about the front-self relative to the back-self?
The BKs teach that God is the Father of All Souls, but he speaks directly only to the BKs. If that is the case, why is the BK knowledge so shallow? Why does it always adjust itself to suit ”the market”? (In the West, they do have decided to use the euphemism ”Transformation” instead of "World Destruction” but they still have to accept that for the ”transformation” to be completed, 7 billion people must die quickly).
Surely God is beyond such things? Actually there was a time when the Gyan was always spoken to the public in unadulterated fashion, directly and bluntly, no wishy-washy PR obfuscations. I would volunteer on BK exhibition stands or go on ”Peace Marches”, telling "God has come, Kali yuga is going Sat Yuga is coming, there is only one God and his name is not allah but Shiva, Jesus was a second rate BK, democracy is the blind leading the blind, rivers of blood will flow etc etc” Lekhraj (Brahma Baba) and ”Mama" would write letters to the King of England and various other world leaders.
You should search the library area of this site or the forums for discussions on the history of this group. "Those who do not learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat it".
http://www.brahmakumaris.info/about/library/