At 10:36 AM +0530 4/18/10, ss wrote: >You can be the head of a donkey shit worshipping cult or religion and >still be Hindu. But if you worship donkey shit and try being Muslim or >Christian - you will have some trouble getting in and having your view >accepted as legitimate. But as long as you can argue your case for donkey >shit being an embodiment of the "truth" as envisaged by some Hindus, nobody >can say you are not Hindu. You can worship Donkey shit and Shiva side by side >if you like.
This sounds not unlike being a Quaker, which I am. Quakerism is technically (and culturally) a branch of Christianity. It posited universalism from the start. Once you get on that train, you can't really deny the possibility that someone can experience divinity (or, as Friends like the say, the Light) in anything. There are branches of Islam that get to a similar place. >Hinduism is a whole lot if "not this" and "not that". It is nothing in >particular. It is in short the ultimate and most degenerate and primeval form >of paganism. It was the pagan traits of Hinduism (and similar cults and >religions) that were sought to be removed by newer organized religions such >as Chritianity and islam. A whole lot of traits that are described as bad and >never to be followed in Christianity and Islam are followed cheerfully by >people who call themselves Hindu, or are in turn called Hindu by others. You make Hinduism sound very attractive. The mythos is rich and varied and colorful and sexy as well. The problem with monotheistic religions is that they're *monotonous*. You're always running up against the edge of the tent, and then you're out in the desert with a pack of dogs on your heels. -- Heather Madrone ([email protected]) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.
