Are Hindus polytheistic?
The textbook wars in California was front page news in The Wall Street Journal. Americans, originally from India are waging a fight to correct the factual errors (and also inserting their own revisionist history). It's impossible to separate religion from hysteria.
Religion has a way of getting corrupted by folks to serve their own narrow interests - and that is true for all religions. The essence of Hinduism is captured in the concept of One God Many Names. And over time different parts of the country have developed fealty to a particular God/Image/Idol and forgotten the essence of the religion.
And we have now succeeded in exporting our differences and ignorance to American shores.
We spend our time creating borders around religion and the ensuing bloodshed has sadly stained human history. God does not really care - he could care less that you pray to Jesus or Mohammed or Moses or Buddha - all paths lead to One God. That is true for Hindus as well as followers of any other religion.
All sensible folks should reject religious differences - it is impossible to reconcile the concept of God - all loving and forgiving - with the idea being propagated by fanatics that God will reject you at Heaven's gates because of your religion. It borders on insanity and would be laughable if lives were not being wasted to defend that myth.
Mahesh Shetty
Religion has a way of getting corrupted by folks to serve their own narrow interests - and that is true for all religions. The essence of Hinduism is captured in the concept of One God Many Names. And over time different parts of the country have developed fealty to a particular God/Image/Idol and forgotten the essence of the religion.
And we have now succeeded in exporting our differences and ignorance to American shores.
We spend our time creating borders around religion and the ensuing bloodshed has sadly stained human history. God does not really care - he could care less that you pray to Jesus or Mohammed or Moses or Buddha - all paths lead to One God. That is true for Hindus as well as followers of any other religion.
All sensible folks should reject religious differences - it is impossible to reconcile the concept of God - all loving and forgiving - with the idea being propagated by fanatics that God will reject you at Heaven's gates because of your religion. It borders on insanity and would be laughable if lives were not being wasted to defend that myth.
Mahesh Shetty
posted by Mahesh Shetty at 2:36 PM
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