On Tuesday 20 Apr 2010 2:48:06 am Charles Haynes wrote: > From it has flowed a river of > religious violence in the name of Hinduism deliberately encouraged by > people using Hinduism to perpetrate religious and political violence > against non-Hindus.
This is such a blinkered and restricted view of the history of Hindu violence that it classifies as ignorance. Why do you think the pagans (Hindus) of India survived with many of their beliefs intact while the religions Christianity and Islam overran and eliminated the pagans of Africa, Europe and much of Asia? It is because Hindus were violent enough to kill others. Even Buddhism was beaten and sent out of India to places where it is now being beaten and replaced by Islam. There is, and was plenty of violence that Hindus do not like to admit Since apparently well read people do not seem to have heard the usual cliches that are spouted, let me point out how "religions" or groups of people claiming to support a religion have used a Goebbelsian propaganda tactic to usurp certain expressions to describe themselves while they commit the most horrendous acts of debauchery and violence on a gullible human population. "Hindus" of course have latched on to "Tolerant" as a byword. We have been discussing the limits of Hindu tolerance, such as exists in thie theradIslam has corneerd for itself f the word "Peace" and people go about describing Islam as a religion of "peace" whihc is rubbish. There is, and was plenty of violence that Muslims will not admit. And Christianity hseems to have grabbed for itself the words "love" and "forviveness" while the actions of Chritsiany from 1 minute after Christ died have been anything but love and/or forgiveness. There is, and was, plenty of violence that Christians will not admit. i am not sure how educated thinking people get fooled by buzzwords. Maybe that is why advertsing is such huge business. But the point I want to make is "I will not allow anyone to escape being called a bullshitter if he tries to say that some action is justifiable because it is his (or someone else's) religion" So friggin what if it is someone's religion? shiv
