<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Please look at the image below.
It represents Hinduism, Christianity and Islam coded in colors under three graphs A, B and C
Please tell me if you think whether choices A, B or C represent reality in your mind.
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Or do you have a different mental picture?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Most important question: <i>where are all the other religions?</i> I mean, where's Shinto, Taoism, N American Native American Tradition, and the like? They're as important as Hinduism. Hinduism seriously overlaps with those, some even more than others. Hinduism is not alone. At present it's like asking people a multi-choice Q on whether they are most like Stalin or Hitler, instead of giving other good guys to make the comparison with.
Unless you require the diagram to account for christoislamic plagiarism of the Natural Religions, I don't see any overlap of any of these Religions with christoislamism. If this plagiarism is to be taken into account, then yeah, Hellenismos, Religio Roma, Mithraism and mainstream Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, possibly Hinduism, even Old Arabian Religion ought to intersect a little with christoislamism. But that's <i>only</i> because of the elements christoislamism took from them and inverted. Else nothing at all.
<!--QuoteBegin-Raju+Apr 17 2007, 06:45 PM-->QUOTE(Raju @ Apr 17 2007, 06:45 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Say, if an Abdul Kalam or a Feroz Khan want to refer to themselves as a hindu or look at things from that perspective, then their narrative is important as well and needs to be heard.Â
It is important not to dismiss such people as psec or under any other nomenclature.[right][snapback]67233[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Every Hindu knows Abdul Kalam is neither anti-Hindu nor a psecular. I've read that he reads the Bhagavad Gita. Every day, I think it was. If he says he's a Hindu, Hindus aren't going to contest that. Why such an irrelevant example?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Someone will say you cannot be a Commie and still be a Hindu, a Commie will then turn around and say what makes you a better Hindu than me, next someone will talk about they being made to feel they are not Hindus because they belong to such and such caste....<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->First time I've ever heard anyone mention that certain castes are not Hindu. Who at IF said such a thing? It is also an irrelevant example, no need to attribute it to the other side's arguments. Don't disingenuously equate communists to another Hindu community, the two are <i>not</i> the same.
Communists cannot be Hindus just 'cause they say so. Communism is a christian meme, call it 'christian heresy' if you will. It is an ideology that is an offshoot of christianity, so they can at best say they're christian and the christians can duke it out with them.
It represents Hinduism, Christianity and Islam coded in colors under three graphs A, B and C
Please tell me if you think whether choices A, B or C represent reality in your mind.
[...]
Or do you have a different mental picture?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Most important question: <i>where are all the other religions?</i> I mean, where's Shinto, Taoism, N American Native American Tradition, and the like? They're as important as Hinduism. Hinduism seriously overlaps with those, some even more than others. Hinduism is not alone. At present it's like asking people a multi-choice Q on whether they are most like Stalin or Hitler, instead of giving other good guys to make the comparison with.
Unless you require the diagram to account for christoislamic plagiarism of the Natural Religions, I don't see any overlap of any of these Religions with christoislamism. If this plagiarism is to be taken into account, then yeah, Hellenismos, Religio Roma, Mithraism and mainstream Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, possibly Hinduism, even Old Arabian Religion ought to intersect a little with christoislamism. But that's <i>only</i> because of the elements christoislamism took from them and inverted. Else nothing at all.
<!--QuoteBegin-Raju+Apr 17 2007, 06:45 PM-->QUOTE(Raju @ Apr 17 2007, 06:45 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Say, if an Abdul Kalam or a Feroz Khan want to refer to themselves as a hindu or look at things from that perspective, then their narrative is important as well and needs to be heard.Â
It is important not to dismiss such people as psec or under any other nomenclature.[right][snapback]67233[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Every Hindu knows Abdul Kalam is neither anti-Hindu nor a psecular. I've read that he reads the Bhagavad Gita. Every day, I think it was. If he says he's a Hindu, Hindus aren't going to contest that. Why such an irrelevant example?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Someone will say you cannot be a Commie and still be a Hindu, a Commie will then turn around and say what makes you a better Hindu than me, next someone will talk about they being made to feel they are not Hindus because they belong to such and such caste....<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->First time I've ever heard anyone mention that certain castes are not Hindu. Who at IF said such a thing? It is also an irrelevant example, no need to attribute it to the other side's arguments. Don't disingenuously equate communists to another Hindu community, the two are <i>not</i> the same.
Communists cannot be Hindus just 'cause they say so. Communism is a christian meme, call it 'christian heresy' if you will. It is an ideology that is an offshoot of christianity, so they can at best say they're christian and the christians can duke it out with them.