Re: The God Concept of Hinduism [split: 11 Hindu Extremists jailed for raping a Musli
How is this any different than Islam? How can one possibly understand Islam without going beyond holy books and study Muhammad + his companions + early imams + mujtahids + later imams + culture + history + Arabic, etc...
I think people who believe a religion is totally objective and scientific have a hard time grasping a more complex religion like Hinduism. It's not as simplistic as "I am ONE angry and jealous God that revealed everything in ONE language to ONE prophet without any room for interpretation."
BTW, the title should be changed. It's disrespectful to have "the God concept of Hinduism" alongside something so heinous.
Seminole, you got me wrong. A false approch to discuss on this.
The very basics of a religion starts with some facts well known to one. Like historic events, tradition, culture and the time where this all took place and those involved in those events.
I had my argument on how one can confirm on that the belief is still Hinduism, since a lot has been changed and is changing til now. If I say I am a Muslim and I follow Islam I do state this on two profound reasons:
I have Quran, God's revelation (which iremain unchanged)
the Hadith, transmittion on the authority of our Prophet (s.a.w) of his deeds, sayings etc. (again very authentic, especially Bukhari's sources)
But how can I say a source from an author (a human being) to be as trustworthy and thus can make me convince of the "do" and "do nots" of a religion? I would rather take the gita, vedas as sources to acknowledge as being more authentic then a book written by some author including his own views and opinions.
So my very purpose of discussion is, I believe hinduism to be monotheism but was changed over the years by Its followers (not arguing of wrong or right!), therefore hinduism in any case Is not the religion any more once It used to be. But Is it then hinduism?!