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**InvertPrete** · 09-23-2011, 07:33 PM

Prasad,

The reason why I chose to post on that was that attempts have been made and have succeeded in projecting an image of Hinduism abroad which is not true. They have succeeded in taking Tantra, Folk Hinduism and many other aspects out of their own version of Hinduism.

Just to quote an example, is it not strange that when in India the vast majority of the Hindus eat non-vegetarian food, we are trying to make out that Vegetarianism is a prime requisite for a Hindu? We swear by the Vedas, but deny that that the Vedic rituals included Animal Sacrifices.

You are right. Hinduism is like a Mall. But attempts are being made to turn it into a Monotheistic religion and an intolerant religion.

I will talk about this later.

My post is aimed at NRIs who should be aware of such attempts.

I think you are picking an imaginary group and making too generic statements to counter those imaginary groups. Your examples are also not clear. If majority of hindus are vegetarians, that doesn't also mean non-vegsm is a prerequisite. I don't know whom you are trying to target, which group said vegsm is a prerequisite being hindu? I don't understand what you are trying to say by your animal sacrifice example, who succeeded in saying that they never happened?
And you say big attempts made to turn it into monotheistic, i'm surprised, what is your philosophy, did you not understand that the monotheism they refer to is not same as other monothestic religions? they refer to panantheism actually. And I've no idea who said hinduism is intolerant as you accused. To be honest, I've never seen any reference from you so far in this thread, your personal opinions won't help, it will be just another propaganda. You seem to using too many superlatives like 'big attempts', 'billion dollar busiess'(I wonder what billion dollar in a name), 'tonnes of money' etc etc, all too subjective and as propagandic as anyone else.

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InvertPrete Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 527 Senior Member	Prasad, The reason why I chose to post on that was that attempts have been made and have succeeded in projecting an image of Hinduism abroad which is not true. They have succeeded in taking Tantra, Folk Hinduism and many other aspects out of their own version of Hinduism. Just to quote an example, is it not strange that when in India the vast majority of the Hindus eat non-vegetarian food, we are trying to make out that Vegetarianism is a prime requisite for a Hindu? We swear by the Vedas, but deny that that the Vedic rituals included Animal Sacrifices. You are right. Hinduism is like a Mall. But attempts are being made to turn it into a Monotheistic religion and an intolerant religion. I will talk about this later. My post is aimed at NRIs who should be aware of such attempts. I think you are picking an imaginary group and making too generic statements to counter those imaginary groups. Your examples are also not clear. If majority of hindus are vegetarians, that doesn't also mean non-vegsm is a prerequisite. I don't know whom you are trying to target, which group said vegsm is a prerequisite being hindu? I don't understand what you are trying to say by your animal sacrifice example, who succeeded in saying that they never happened? And you say big attempts made to turn it into monotheistic, i'm surprised, what is your philosophy, did you not understand that the monotheism they refer to is not same as other monothestic religions? they refer to panantheism actually. And I've no idea who said hinduism is intolerant as you accused. To be honest, I've never seen any reference from you so far in this thread, your personal opinions won't help, it will be just another propaganda. You seem to using too many superlatives like 'big attempts', 'billion dollar busiess'(I wonder what billion dollar in a name), 'tonnes of money' etc etc, all too subjective and as propagandic as anyone else.
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