04-20-2007, 10:03 PM
I have noticed elsewhere and to a small extent on here that there is a tendency to credit Allah and Jehovah with more power than they have and to discredit Hindus by assuming that they are somehow not knowledgeable enough.
The assumption is that any Christian and any Muslims is a rigid adherent of his faith. There is a deep flaw in this argument because if all Christians and Muslims are rigid adherents, that means that the faith is indeed very good and very attractive.
In fact both faiths have deep flaws and those flaws are recognised by their followers. Christianity of course is not followed rigidly at all over most of the Christian world. Islam is followed better because it is the same as living in a concentration camp. Escape is punished.
The rigidest followers are mostly the Priests (the Church) and Mullahs and supporting Sultans whose power depends on it.
Hindus are the most subversive people for these faiths and they are not as dumb as imagined. A lot of Hindus follow multiple Gods because they feel that they get extra points for that. Many converts are only half -converts who do whatever is convenient. These "half converts" are not victories for rigid faiths - they are doomed to be failures in the long term.
Most Germans followed Hitler during WW2 , but most were not Nazis. People do what is expedient and conversion and reversion are part of that game.
I would love to see the day when the RSS holds a bhajan and hymn singing session in a Church on the basis that all Gods are one. That is a far better pro-active "attacking move" than the reversion of converted Hindus.
I have prayed in a Church - but unfortunately I don't have the solid credentials of the RSS to score a publicity coup.
But I don't think we Hindus have figured out how to play this game well.
The assumption is that any Christian and any Muslims is a rigid adherent of his faith. There is a deep flaw in this argument because if all Christians and Muslims are rigid adherents, that means that the faith is indeed very good and very attractive.
In fact both faiths have deep flaws and those flaws are recognised by their followers. Christianity of course is not followed rigidly at all over most of the Christian world. Islam is followed better because it is the same as living in a concentration camp. Escape is punished.
The rigidest followers are mostly the Priests (the Church) and Mullahs and supporting Sultans whose power depends on it.
Hindus are the most subversive people for these faiths and they are not as dumb as imagined. A lot of Hindus follow multiple Gods because they feel that they get extra points for that. Many converts are only half -converts who do whatever is convenient. These "half converts" are not victories for rigid faiths - they are doomed to be failures in the long term.
Most Germans followed Hitler during WW2 , but most were not Nazis. People do what is expedient and conversion and reversion are part of that game.
I would love to see the day when the RSS holds a bhajan and hymn singing session in a Church on the basis that all Gods are one. That is a far better pro-active "attacking move" than the reversion of converted Hindus.
I have prayed in a Church - but unfortunately I don't have the solid credentials of the RSS to score a publicity coup.
But I don't think we Hindus have figured out how to play this game well.