use of 'that' after colon

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> >"He adopted these outward trappings to gain the confidence of

> >materialistic people, just to get them to hear his message: that

> >everything of this world is meaningless if conceived of without

> >relationship to Krsna."

> >

> >Is "that" required or preferable after the colon?

>

> No.

>

> You can delete it and start "everything" with a capital "E."

 

Seems there could be a dozen ways of doing it, but after some musing I opted

for replacing the colon with an emdash, which just 'seems' best to me, and

Prof. Carl gave it the OK.