12-09-2006, 02:52 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Faith has nothing to do with the survival of Hinduism.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What nonsense, of course faith in dharma has everything to do with our survival.
If a population has no faith or attachment to the religion they are following, they will easily surrender and get converted which is what happened with the Buddhists in the frontiers and in East Bengal.
On the other hand if the population stands by it's religion and culture because it has faith in them then it is harder for the invader to convert people.
Have you heard of the daily beheadings that happened after Banda's capture by the Mughals, not a single Sikh is said to have accepted Islam, all of them preferred death because they had more faith in their Gurus than Islam, if they had no faith, they would have switched religions at the first chance to save themselves.
What nonsense, of course faith in dharma has everything to do with our survival.
If a population has no faith or attachment to the religion they are following, they will easily surrender and get converted which is what happened with the Buddhists in the frontiers and in East Bengal.
On the other hand if the population stands by it's religion and culture because it has faith in them then it is harder for the invader to convert people.
Have you heard of the daily beheadings that happened after Banda's capture by the Mughals, not a single Sikh is said to have accepted Islam, all of them preferred death because they had more faith in their Gurus than Islam, if they had no faith, they would have switched religions at the first chance to save themselves.