On Sunday 20 Jul 2008 2:55:55 pm Charles Haynes wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone ever looked at Hinduism as the ultimate decentralization of > > religion, which is what it is. > > The "ultimate" decentralization of religion is each person defining > religion for themselves. > > As long as some arbiter of Hinduness can refuse me entry to a temple > because I'm not Hindu enough, then Hinduism is hardly the ultimate > decentralization of religion. > > ... especially when "not Hindu enough" in practice means "not Indian > looking enough" regardless of what I might actually believe.
Hence the loss of meaning from quoting only part of what I wrote. For completion, may I repeat rest of my post which was meant to address what you have said after quoting what suits your view? > But it is open to poaching by anyone who tries > to create a central attractor. > > Decentralization works. For a bit. shiv
