If a Christian criticized a Hindu for having so many gods, what might a Hindu say?
>"y-you better back off! I h-have a friend who is a Kshatriya!"
"Pssh. Nothing personnel, kid."
That Hindu Gods are all part of one whole God or something like that.
>>778767
>you have lots of gods
>yes, we do
It's a statement, not an insult.
>>778824
That's the last thing a hindu would say. Step your meme game up brah.
>>778767
a) Why is having one God better than having multiple? You could build an arguement that polythestic religions are far better systesm, there is no weird things like 'how does evil exist' 'why does God allow suffering' because every aspect of nature is affirmed by one God or another. In polytheistic systems supreme power though tends to rest with some sort of force even the Gods cannot contest. For instance in the Greek religion that force is fate.
b) Hinduism can be described as poly, mono, or pan theism. Our Judeo/Christian concept of religions a dichotomies does not apply there.
Why do you want to know?
There is actually one god who is Brahman. Was it legit thing to say?
>>780411
Brahman literally means universe
I think most of the god figures are actually meant to be anthropomorphic, but has been taken literally gradually over time as hinduism degenerated into something else entirely
>Hindus are considered polytheist, despite the Brahman essence inhabiting multiple, individual beings.
>Christians are considered monotheist, despite the God essence inhabiting three, individual beings.
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>>778767
Quite a lot of things, depending on the individual Hindu's beliefs.
Hinduism isn't a religion in the modern western sense of the word. It's more of an umbrella term for a variety of related belief systems, something akin to "Abrahamic Monotheism".
>>778767
Everything I needed to know about Hinduism I learned from the buddha, who completely rejected the vedas and the caste system that imprisoned men..
>>780606
>buddha, who completely rejected the
vedas
Lmao where do you even get your info? Your ass?
>>780588
>Hinduism isn't a religion
Get a load of this retard.
>>780632
He's right tho.
"Hinduism" basically means the religions of India.
There's no single doctrine, theology, or set of rituals
>>780632
Considering it never regarded itself as something seperate and there were no other 'religion' (re:abrahamic) it can be considered
There arent any conversion ritual and all the religious books are very philosophical in nature
>>780621
From Ravi Zacharias, a former Hindu turned Christian Apologist.
>>780706
Then you got duped
Buddha incorporated any ideas from vedas
Neither does vedas 'imprisoned men'
Its a collection highly philosophical books
Neither did the caste system emerged from them, they created thr social order based on what work one does rather than predetermining it from birth
>>780738
A quick google will reveal hundreds of sites on why Budda rejected the vedas, and it's the caste system that imprisons men.
>>780738
In his own words:
The truth is that every major religion in the world claims exclusivity, and every major religion in the world has a point of exclusion.
Hinduism, for example, is often represented as being the most tolerant and accepting of other faiths. That is just not true. All Hindus believe in two fundamental, uncompromising doctrines—the Law of Karma, and the belief in reincarnation. These will not be surrendered. In fact, Buddhism was born out of the rejection of two other very dogmatic claims of Hinduism. Buddha rejected the authority of the vedas and the caste system of Hinduism. The issue here is not who was right or wrong. The truth is that they were systemically different—both claiming rightness.
>>780760
A quick google search just confirmed the fact that buddha did not reject the vedas, just the idea of supreme god and brahamanistic rituals, and that the caste system determining social status by birth was not based on the vedas
>>780765
>beleiving a literally who's words
>>780778
kek
Ravi Zacharias is one of the leading Christian apologists of the modern era.
>>780785
Never heard of him before
>>780781
There is a difference between rejecting it entirely and rejecting or replacing some of its views on the world, and this wasnt a new thing in hinduism, philosophical conflict has been a part of it since the start
Its just that vuddha got famous because he was the hot new shit who treated ashoka who in turn preached him through messengers to all of subcontinent and beyond
Whats the difference between 3 gods and million gods?
>>780829
999,997 gods.
>>780427
it's the opposite, all the hindu gods were originally tribal deities that lived in specific auspicious locations
buddhism came along and hinduism became more cognitive in response by associating old symbolism with cosmological concepts
shaivism is just crypto-christian though
>>778767
is it true that this god (or one of their gods) is worshipped by throwing a packet of butter at the statue in it's shrine?
>>780765
Tolerance doesn't mean having no sets of beleifs it means not murdering people who have different ones.
Buddihists live in India comfortably. Being a Hindu is illegal in some Islamic countries
>>780585
>Christians are considered monotheist, despite the God essence inhabiting three, individual beings
>όμοούσιος
Bro do you even Nicea?
>>780805
It's just two ways to tread down the broad road that leads to destruction. There are many ways that seem right to a man, but they all end at death.
>>780881
Yes, there has never been any blood shed between Buddhists and Hindus over matters of faith.
>>781543
>Some Islamic countries in the modern time will literally beat you to death for beleiving any other religion
>Once Hindus had some religious intolerance
The point isn't to have a spotless record. The point is that Hindus have arguable the best record.
>>781768
The point is the Hindus have perhaps the worst society on earth and believe in up to 330,000,000 demon gods.
>>778767
depending on how well the christian knows classical theism and isn't simply a low idiot, the hindu could explain hindu monotheism and allow the christian to re-examine hindu gods as being hypostases of the one true god, and that any criticism leveled against the hindu thence would be equivalent to the filthy saracen's charges of polytheism against the christian.
>>781780
There's far worst societies than India, they are pretty civilized in the larger cities, while the countries sides are more backwards.
And if the trend if less Gods=better society what are you saying? That the best society would have zero Gods?
How do you even correlate that with things like Islamic countries having 1 God but being shitty and ancient Greece having many Gods and being a super power. Or China's successful economy and having lots of weird local Gods?
>>778767
Imagine of the Germanic pantheon- in response to christianity became organized and began to see themselves as a unified religion> Different local and societal cultural practices became associated with the religion and some deties and aspects of celtic paganism were adopted. That's essentially what hinduism is: a number of pagan myths, deities , and local traditions put into one religion
>>782015
Agreed
All paths lead to God, peace be to you my son
>>778767
How is that a criticism?
>>781966
The nice places belong to the people born to nice places.
The gutters belong to the people born to the gutters.
Maybe the worst society ever.
>>778790
It actually depends on school. Some Hindu schools emphasize the existence of only one soul, some argue for a multiplicity of souls.
>>778767
>If a Christian criticized a Hindu for having so many gods
What's there to criticize about that?
Dumb ass Abrahamics. lol
>>778782
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He would tell him to go and vacate his bowels in the nearest lavatory.
>>780632
He's right you nonce. Hindu was a name given by the Persians to those living near the river Sindhu.
>>778767
>so many gods
Or none at all.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charvaka
>We must not forget that this undignified, stagnatory, and vegetative life, that this passive sort of existence evoked on the other part, in contradistinction, wild, aimless, unbounded forces of destruction and rendered murder itself a religious rite in Hindostan. We must not forget that these little communities were contaminated by distinctions of caste and by slavery, that they subjugated man to external circumstances instead of elevating man the sovereign of circumstances, that they transformed a self-developing social state into never changing natural destiny, and thus brought about a brutalizing worship of nature, exhibiting its degradation in the fact that man, the sovereign of nature, fell down on his knees in adoration of Kanuman, the monkey, and Sabbala, the cow.
>>784165
Hm cool. I bookmarked the article and will read it later. Thanks.
>>780832
T. Engineer
>>781780
Or you just dont know about hinduism and have preconcieved notions
The hinduism of today is not the 'hinduism' of the past
Read up a bit before criticizing
>>780765
Have you even read the vedas?
This guy clearly didnt
Ask him why one god is better than many gods or no god at all
>So far no poo in loo comments
What happened to his
>>778767
Ask him how many saints he has.
They would probably misunderstand why the monotheist cares about gods so much in the first place, taking divinity for granted as he (and his pagan friends) do.
>>784654
Look into Ravi Zacharias, and I'm sure you'll find someone very well versed in Hinduism. I suggest starting by searcing Youtube for ravi zacharias hinduism, and judge for yourself.
>>781527
>όμοούσιος
>The Trinity is one God even though it's three different aspects
>Christians pray to literally hundreds of saints all the time
Christianity is only monotheist in theory. In practice it has a lot of polytheistic idiosyncracies.
>>785115
Catholics. Catholics pray to hundreds of dead people, to their error, and rely on Jesus' mommy to save them. It's absurd to not be able to distinguish Christians from Catholics. Just absurd.
>>785122
>no TRUE Christian would EVER pray to ANYTHING other than what I, as the REAL Christian here does!
toplel
>>785113
Why should i study it from someone else's viewpoint?
And of someone who's most likely deviating it to his bias
Its the same as a muslim telling me to judge christianity by some video made by a durkadurka
