Re: Is this a fact or not?
You can’t correct someone when your perspective is entirely flawed. Hinduism is an organized religion and that’s about as true as night and day. Sure we can try and introduce new meanings for words like Dharma and what not but the basic structure of Hinduism echoes any of the other major religions.
- Religious Buildings? Check
- Religious Texts? Check
- Clergy? Check
- Consequences of actions/Cause and effect? Check
- Qualifiers for being part of that religion? Check
I suppose you’re trying to make it fit in current times and to your beliefs but then you take away the basic essence of the religion. Its no longer Hinduism, its a bit of this and a bit of that. Again I am simply trying to show you that your understanding of the term organized religion is not what the term actually refers to and Hinduism is in fact part of that group.
This is why I said organized religion is not to be taken literally in the sense of an organization. That’s wrong. It is not what the term means.
Gods
Avatars
Religious texts (Shrutis and Smritis)
Pandits/Pujaris
I think I got that right, sure enough you can look at that as an organized religion, can’t you?