Alise
16 September 2010, 05:04 PM
Namaste,
I, being person who really doesn't like when hateful stuff is written [or anything else] about things/people/etc. dear to me, wrote to one christian site, which criticized religions including Hinduism. It's rude & ignorant site. Anyway I wrote, how I said that they should first look into their religion & only then criticize others & stated why I believed they should just read more about Hinduism before judging & so. [I'm hothead when it comes to dear family, religion or anything else]. He replied that I fulfilled scripture & the verse. Obviously I replied that not everyone believe in Bible as THE scripture.
Anyway, I have so much to learn :( Today I even got really annoyed in the bookstore, because in there are absolutely NO books in latvian about Hinduism. [not counting 'world religions' books] How can I start to be more tolerant & so on as Hindu should be?
Anyway... I was really nice but asked proof other than bible for Jesus... He said that I should pray for Jesus & he'll come. But as I was 2 weeks away & with person who told these stories about christianity, I understood that God actually in every religion is the same, people interpreting it differently has different experience.
And so very long intro... BUT... Today I look into my e-mail & here's what I received:
You say that Hinduism is way older so it must be correct? Paganism has been around for a long time. Why not look at the results of hinduism such as India. What has hinduism ever done that was good for mankind? Nothing. At least you are young and dumb and have time to wakeup.
I didn't understand his point about paganism. Did he meant that paganism is proven to be older than Hinduism? How old is Hinduism? Sanathana Dharma is eternal...
So here are things I can think of:
ayurveda
yoga
meditation
numbers & zero
vedic astrology
Vedas
Upanishadas
+India before British & muslim rule was very rich & developed sub-continent. [or am I wrong?] Surgery was done way before europeans did it. Pythagorus theorem was way before Pythagorus. And sanskrit is said to be mother of all languages [at least european...]. Ok I'm not sure about these...
And one of reason why I like Hinduism is because it's oldest living religion, after all why would really God change mind how people should act and what should believe?
So real reason why I made this thread is 'What has Hinduism given to mankind?'
Sorry for anything grammatically incorrect & I apologize for my hotheaded behavior...
And that person was really nice to call me dumb, sometimes I actually feel so, but I'm not... I'm actually really smart...
Have a nice day,
~Alice
P.S. Oh & I must say that I think India is very beautiful... I mean really... I have seen it only in pictures but hey - everything has bad & good side, right?
I, being person who really doesn't like when hateful stuff is written [or anything else] about things/people/etc. dear to me, wrote to one christian site, which criticized religions including Hinduism. It's rude & ignorant site. Anyway I wrote, how I said that they should first look into their religion & only then criticize others & stated why I believed they should just read more about Hinduism before judging & so. [I'm hothead when it comes to dear family, religion or anything else]. He replied that I fulfilled scripture & the verse. Obviously I replied that not everyone believe in Bible as THE scripture.
Anyway, I have so much to learn :( Today I even got really annoyed in the bookstore, because in there are absolutely NO books in latvian about Hinduism. [not counting 'world religions' books] How can I start to be more tolerant & so on as Hindu should be?
Anyway... I was really nice but asked proof other than bible for Jesus... He said that I should pray for Jesus & he'll come. But as I was 2 weeks away & with person who told these stories about christianity, I understood that God actually in every religion is the same, people interpreting it differently has different experience.
And so very long intro... BUT... Today I look into my e-mail & here's what I received:
You say that Hinduism is way older so it must be correct? Paganism has been around for a long time. Why not look at the results of hinduism such as India. What has hinduism ever done that was good for mankind? Nothing. At least you are young and dumb and have time to wakeup.
I didn't understand his point about paganism. Did he meant that paganism is proven to be older than Hinduism? How old is Hinduism? Sanathana Dharma is eternal...
So here are things I can think of:
ayurveda
yoga
meditation
numbers & zero
vedic astrology
Vedas
Upanishadas
+India before British & muslim rule was very rich & developed sub-continent. [or am I wrong?] Surgery was done way before europeans did it. Pythagorus theorem was way before Pythagorus. And sanskrit is said to be mother of all languages [at least european...]. Ok I'm not sure about these...
And one of reason why I like Hinduism is because it's oldest living religion, after all why would really God change mind how people should act and what should believe?
So real reason why I made this thread is 'What has Hinduism given to mankind?'
Sorry for anything grammatically incorrect & I apologize for my hotheaded behavior...
And that person was really nice to call me dumb, sometimes I actually feel so, but I'm not... I'm actually really smart...
Have a nice day,
~Alice
P.S. Oh & I must say that I think India is very beautiful... I mean really... I have seen it only in pictures but hey - everything has bad & good side, right?