On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: > > hands. I was merely pointing out that IMO Hinduism is equally guilty.
There were many merry blood thirsty battles for millennia between the Indian religions before Islam & Christianity made sufficient inroads. Kings fought each other for Shaivite, Vaishnavite, Jain or Buddhist supremacy in every corner of India. When the Westerners mistook all the Indian religions to be Hinduism the locals must have let it be because it was a good compromise and an end to a long history of rivalry and misery. Although Krishna seems to have met Apollo without coming to blows in 1500BCE - the port city of Muziris flourished for ~2500 years without much religious fall out. The Roman policy for long has remained to stay well away from local politics and religion, this was one of the principal reasons they managed to hold onto world power for as long as they did. Interestingly, the organizational structure of 16th century European sea farers and Christian missionaries is much the same as 21st century VC backed startups and Al Qaeda backed terrorists. Cheeni
