@Car
I think you're being much too hard on the Hindus. Don't underestimate the Bent Twig theory: Push a man too far and back he will lash. The beardos better be on their guard. I have tremendous hope for Hinduism. Whatever imbecility it may traffic in, the fact remains that most Hindus I've met are cool with science. Can't say the same holds true for Allah's gang. To my mind, and I'm open to correction, Hinduism is not so dogmatic a creed as the monotheisms. Owing to the multiplicity of gods in your pantheon there is no single way of manifesting the true, the good and the beautiful. No dogmatic insistence that one must worship in a certain formula or breakdance forever in the lowest rung of hell. Like all polytheistic creeds there is a measure of scope for rival interpretations that comes with having so vast a multitide of deities. Very cute
Islam is blemished by its pathological devotion to be the Final Revelation outside of which all else is mere sound and fury signifying nothing. Hindusim though not perfect I'm sure has cultivated a degree of tolerance against which others have taken up cudgels. Why? Tell us something about the deep mysteries of the cow worshipping faith, something to make former towelheads weep with admiration. Quit equivocating and give us a thread filled with strange and exotic tales of Hindu mystics who were mounted by a god with a hundred thousand cocks.
Brilliant as usual and very perceptive!
Islam is an issue primarily because of its need to browbeat and dominate
You mean otherwise it is the ultimate religion?
In my understanding, Eric Hoffer paraphrased it best when he said 'An Indian will bite the hand that feeds it and lick the boot that kicks it'!
Who the fuck is Eric Hoffer? Another messenger of GOD speaking the truth nothing but the truth? My friend, you have people who bite the hand that feeds them or lick the boot that kicks them everywhere, that's not peculiar to Indians.Please don't fall a victim to universal generalization. A la MAB,let me ask you something, did some pundit rupture your asshole? roflmao! No offence!
Given a proper population balance in the lush tropics, {1}one need not exercise ones brain for sheer survival. One need not develop elaborate group dynamics and social responses to hunt large formidable animals such as the woolly mammoth. Here you can trap small animals without much effort and afford to lead {2}life on the basis on 'each to his own'.
{1} A revelation! --- debatable {2} MAN! Is it such a bad thing??
Would you believe me when I say, Muslim shrines here in India (except for full blooded Mosques) get as many devout Hindu worshipers as Muslim ones. It is another matter that Islam prohibits praying to saints, sepulchers and shrines. But in this very strange land everything goes.
This is something to rejoice about, not something to be scorned.Because everything goes, that nutjob Dr. Naik preaches with abandon and gets away with blue murder! How much more liberal can you get,even if you consider that it's due to indifference?In fact if you want a model for peaceful Islam then it should be like how it was practiced before these wahabis took control of the mosques and started injecting their venom.
Finally let me introduce myself, I am a South Indian like you,was born a Hindu[not a brahmin like you,but hey! the way you talk makes me suspicious about this fact].I don't have a penchant for labels so I can't really tell you to which gang I belong, but the one thing I am certain about is that I have been, what you would roughly call 'a humanist' all my life. I don't make pilgrimages,visit temples or other rituals which are supposed to be normal for believers. And you know what? I have had no problems with my family other than being called 'insane'[VERY OCCASIONALLY!]. My parents didn't disown me, my relatives don't berate me for not taking part in any religious celebration, AND I DON'T MAKE A BIG SHOW OF MY DISBELIEF,NEITHER DO I GET IN THEIR WAY OF DOING WHATEVER THAT MAKES THEM HAPPY HOWEVER STUPID THAT MAY SEEM TO ME. LIVE AND LET LIVE!
I don't feel SUPERIOR or INFERIOR to any human being on this earth and detest all this hatred evoking divisions of mankind. I cherish the friendship of decent people of all shades and colour and detest snobs and bigots.
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