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  1. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    I am not saying you personally are. However, there is an attitude, and it is again tied in with politics, a lot which traces back to Nehru, that Hinduism is not a religion and has no distinctiveness. This lead to 70+ years of discrimination against Hindus in India itself, which Hindus are always...
  2. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    I do agree it has become personal and it should not be. I am not making any appeals to Hindus to oppose non-Hindus. I am making an argument that Hinduism is a clearly well defined worldview that is distinct. Hence, I am arguing for distinctiveness. You do not seem to be aware of Indian politics...
  3. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    Sure, you may have, but you didn't really have much choice did you, it was Rahul Gandhi vs Modi. You are far too intelligent to have voted for Rahul Gandhi. But your political subscriptions are obvious by calling Nehru "great." Him and his ensuing dynasty, who today millions of Indians and...
  4. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    Every Hindu and Indian here who knows about Nehru now know exactly what ideology you are coming from and why your loyalties do not lie with Hindus. Fortunately, Indian people have wisened up since 2014. By the way, I had to point out the irony, for somebody who denies atheism has any links with...
  5. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    Then, in this case of Mormonism, can you show me non-Mormon clergy and Christian scholars who accept it as Christian? That is part 1. Then part 2 is the reasons for those who do not accept it, such as the total inversion of Christian doctrines. Going from monotheism to polytheism is a massive...
  6. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    I clearly know your views are not representative mate that Hinduism is just a science. It is neither accepted by the mass of Hindus or by the mass of scientists. You are trying too hard to fit into your "scientists" group. Anyway, now that I know you do actually believe in reincarnation...
  7. Spirit_Warrior

    What is a religion?

    This is too narrow a definition of religion. A belief in superior beings or supernatural things is not necessarily the requirement for a religion, because this presupposes a certain metaphysics to be the default one and the true one(naturalism) Naturalism has no more right to claim to be the...
  8. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    You are not going to get anywhere by denying that Hinduism does not reach reincarnation and Ishvara, as there are several dozens of Hindus on this forum who know you are wrong. Your problem is you are treating Hinduism as a science, merely a method by which one knows. However, again there are...
  9. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    As far as Hinduism is concerned, materialism is the exact ant-thesis of what we believe and practice. In other religions like Christianity and Islam, it is other religions that get condemned, but in Hinduism it is materialism which is condemned. That is because one who truly believes in...
  10. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    I meant the other major denominations. I make a distinction between the views of the laity and the views of scholars and clergy. If we did another survey how many Christians have cheated on their partner, we might see similar percentages, but that does not mean it is NOT against Christian...
  11. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    Again, you are shooting the messenger here. It is not me who had decided that Mormonism is not a Christian faith, it is the the rest of Christian denominations. I have looked at their reasons for doing so, and they say because it inverts all the core tenets of Christianity. I have looked at one...
  12. Spirit_Warrior

    Should I become vegetarian?

    I would say it depends on your goals. If you are weak and emaciated, I would actually recommend eating meat to beef up a bit. In Ayurvedic texts, meats of various animals, especially goat are recommended for somebody who is weak. If you are a solider who needs to fight in wars, I would again...
  13. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    I am simply citing what I found searching for it. They were not all Evangelical sources, one of them was BBC and there were some well argued papers like the Luther college one. They all agreed, that except for Mormons themselves, the rest of traditional Christian denominations do not consider...
  14. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    I think you are reacting a bit too emotionally and it does little in persuading me to your position. Like I told you, I am a Sikh born Hindu with no a priori knowledge about Christianity vs Mormonism controversy, everything I know about it is based on recent Google searches. I have no bias for...
  15. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    I am glad we agree there has to be a line of demarcation. Now, the next point is to decide where that line is drawn. You draw the line between Judaism and Christianity, but not between Judaism and Islam. I draw the line between all three. However, what is notable here that Jews themselves...
  16. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    Hinduism is that religion or worldview which teaches about past lives and Ishvara etc If you already believe it, or rather in your case know it by experience to be true, then you have just wasted a lot of time and energy viciously fighting with your own kind who believes the same. I think this...
  17. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    This was a fairly easy challenge to meet: 1. The Mormon church teaches that "God is only one of many gods", because human beings can progress to become gods and godesses in the celestial kingdom (see: Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball , pp.28, 51-53). Mormon founder Joseph Smith describes the...
  18. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    It seems, that while Mormons do consider the Bible their holy scripture, they consider it to be imperfect, incomplete and having many errors. Joseph Smith stated: "it was apparent that many important points touching the salvation of men, had been taken from the Bible, or lost before it was...
  19. Spirit_Warrior

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    OK, I see how you can not be Christian and still be from an Evangelical background. In my case, however, there is nobody Christian anywhere in my family or ancestry. I am born Sikh, and a Hindu convert. Hence, I have no bias either way for Christianity or Mormonism. The only interest I have in...
  20. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    If Sayak claims he remembers two of his past lives and senses the presence of Ishvara, then why is spending so much time and energy defending the Charvaka position, when he himself knows through experience it is false? The whole debate becomes pointless then.
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