On Sunday 18 Apr 2010 8:14:47 am Tim Bray wrote: > > If you do not belong to group X and wish to belong to group Y, surely > > joining group Y should suffice. > > Suppose there is no particularly-organized Group Y? "I do not believe > in God" seems like a very worthwhile unregistration to me. While I > totally don't believe in any Hindu deities, I'm unprejudiced, I > equally scoff at the plausibility of the existence of my own tribe's.
You can piss on Hindu deities and still remain Hindu. Hinduism is not a religion although the hallmarks of religion have been sought to be imposed on a mass of pagans whose only unifying "religious" feature is the freedom to worship any damn thing, without prejudicing anyone's right to reject God if that is what he wants to do. Rhetorically speaking, if you want to "unregister from Hinduism", you have to ask why a person is Hindu in the first place. A person is Hindu only because he does not belong to any other organised religion. Such a person may have some other identifying name if he was in Borneo or Africa, In India the default name is "Hindu". You can unregister from Hinduism by actively joining some other religious denimation and then say "I am not Hindu because I am Christian/Muslim/whatever" But if you live in India and you have no religion to pin yourself down upon, you are Hindu by default. Just another person with no fixed belief. Pagan. God has not found you. Yet. shiv
