Allright. I'll start with the easiest one. Your claim that Hinduism is equally focused on heresy as Christianity (and Islam).
I never made that claim. This is a strawman.
But yes, Hindus, in general, tend to be less focused on rigidly following, or even studying the Hindu texts than your typical Muslim or Christian. That has been my observation. But religiosity and conformation with religious traditions vary widely across the globe and even within communities in the Hindu faith, as well as amongst Muslims and Christians.
In the particion between India and Pakistan the Hindus problem with the Muslims were based on what the Muslims were doing, for historical grievances and for tribal reasons. Not because the Muslims had the wrong thoughts on theological matters and dared express them. This conflict was on a completely different level.
Hindus and Muslims killed each other, and tens of millions of people were forced to flee their homelands as refugees because of their religious identification. While there are other factors that drove the events of the partition, the primary reason was friction between the Hindu and Muslim communities across the nation, a culmination of centuries of conflicts and mistrusts between people of the two faiths starting with the first Mughal invasion. And no, the partition was not regional or tribal, it effected the northern half of the subcontinent. Both sets of my grandparents and my father lived through the partition, when they relocated from what is now Bangladesh to what is now India with little more than the clothes on their backs. I have heard first hand accounts of the events in addition to reading history books.
The Brittish colonial rulers had done their darndest to play out Muslims and Hindus against eachother. What a surprise this all blew up with the Brits handed over power to the natives. Hindus might have super strong opinions on what's religiously right or wrong, but they're not going to stab you over it.
Some will. Read up on your Indian history if we care not clear on this point.
Yes, I've read all Hindu religious texts. Many times. When growing up I even had the Bhagavad Gita as a comic book. Many. I've seen the inside of hundreds of Hindu temples, all over India and in Europe. I've been to hundreds of Pujas. Come to think of it... probably thousands. Most memorable was a Kali puja in Hampi where we were being watched by litteral actual live and wild cobras. I've had several gurus. And wasn't molested by any of them. Not even once. Together with a monk I once took care of an elephant, high up in the Welsh mountains. The elephant had been a gift to this temple from the Indian government. Over a lifetime I have spent a lot more time meditating than masturbating.
You spent all this time studying, meditating, and hanging out in ashrams, but you never learned the fundamental theological beliefs of the Hindu faith. I would say your time was largely wasted, if learning about Hinduism had been your goal.
Good luck, trying to outrank me.
This is not a competition.
Not to tell you what you think or believe, but you come across someone who grew up culturally Christian and then converted later in life. And now you're trying to fit Hinduism into a Christianity shaped box. A problem since Christianity is a smaller box than Hinduism.
Would you please fucking listen when I tell you that I was born into a Hindu family and have lived my life as a atheist Hindu? I am NOT a Christian, I have NEVER been a Christian. My observations about Hinduism are based on my reading, my travel and interactions with other Hindus, and 55 years of my life living as a Hindu, as I have told you before. How hard can it be to pay attention?
I'm not a Hindu today. But I do have the highest respect for it.
If you had respect for it, you would have made the effort to learn the foundational theology of the faith, which you clearly don't seem to know.
A word of advice - do your homework before posting. In another thread you had made the claim that a murder trial should be held in the US Supreme Court, without the faintest idea that the Supreme Court, or any higher court of appeal in the US does NOT conduct trials. And you insisted on repeating this opinion even after the facts had been pointed out to you. Set your ego aside and spend more time learning, and you will be a better person for it.
) The same is true of the disembodied entities that people typically take gods to be. To the extent that gods and angels are defined to be undetectable, the claim that either type of being exists is indefeasible. They cannot be ruled out by any experimental means. Science per se merely assumes materialism from a methodological perspective rather than a philosophical perspective. Scientists do not have to be materialists. They just have to behave as if they were in order to do their jobs. They can still believe in miracles and do research that rules out miracles on a methodological basis. That does not entitle them to rule out logic and reason.
