Yet more spam, I'll apologise at the end.
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Seems Elst has written about Hindu survival. He's rather too optimistic. He says a lot of stuff that everyone has already discussed. But his solutions are theoretical (and some unfeasible). And on some points that he would make, he is quite wrong.
koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/hindu-survival-what-is-to-be-done.html
Admits to what ought to be well-known: transmission of heathenism is from heathen family and society into the heathen since infancy. And that now the continuation of the sole proper transmission of heathenism is threatened.
But I don't agree with this analysis of the problem - as it's not complete and it totally skirts over the real issue:
No, what christianism (not "missionaries") knows - and the Hindus don't - is what I already mentioned in the bit regarding the Proper (Hindoo) Viewing of Moorties in another thread, and which was of course more generally applicable: that christianism has cut the Hindoo transmission tree at the roots. It has killed the heathenism in the heathen: the heathen is still alive but his heathenism is not. It is what christianism (not "missionaries") has been consciously aiming for. Christianism has been rubbing out the heathen's proper heathen perception/view of its heathenism. This was easy enough to do when christianism took over education, media, overarching "entertainment" (cinema, etc). Heathenism is transmitted differently - and very frailly - compared to missionary/ideological religions. Christianism identified the weakness of the well-spring of heathenism in India and poisoned the spring. Parents losing their heathenism by degrees means it never gets passed on (properly) to their kids. And that means more Write-Off or even the potential for more gangrene to develop.
Post 1/
Seems Elst has written about Hindu survival. He's rather too optimistic. He says a lot of stuff that everyone has already discussed. But his solutions are theoretical (and some unfeasible). And on some points that he would make, he is quite wrong.
koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/hindu-survival-what-is-to-be-done.html
Admits to what ought to be well-known: transmission of heathenism is from heathen family and society into the heathen since infancy. And that now the continuation of the sole proper transmission of heathenism is threatened.
But I don't agree with this analysis of the problem - as it's not complete and it totally skirts over the real issue:
Quote:The law of inertia is no longer working for Hinduism; it starts to work against it. The missionaries know this; the Hindus, I am not so sure.
No, what christianism (not "missionaries") knows - and the Hindus don't - is what I already mentioned in the bit regarding the Proper (Hindoo) Viewing of Moorties in another thread, and which was of course more generally applicable: that christianism has cut the Hindoo transmission tree at the roots. It has killed the heathenism in the heathen: the heathen is still alive but his heathenism is not. It is what christianism (not "missionaries") has been consciously aiming for. Christianism has been rubbing out the heathen's proper heathen perception/view of its heathenism. This was easy enough to do when christianism took over education, media, overarching "entertainment" (cinema, etc). Heathenism is transmitted differently - and very frailly - compared to missionary/ideological religions. Christianism identified the weakness of the well-spring of heathenism in India and poisoned the spring. Parents losing their heathenism by degrees means it never gets passed on (properly) to their kids. And that means more Write-Off or even the potential for more gangrene to develop.
Death to traitors.