.... at least those of us in the Americas (and probably most of Europe and Australasia) .
This is a positive thread with some really encouraging news
We Are All Hindus Now
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Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names." A Hindu believes there are many paths to God. Jesus is one way, the Qur'an is another, yoga practice is a third.
None is better than any other; all are equal.
The part you put in coloured bold is not a "hindu" principle.
Rather, the argument of the radical homogeneous is but one approach to it.
Even the gita establishes hierarchical principles within henological discussion.
eg BG 5.2 The Personality of Godhead replied: The renunciation of work and work in devotion are both good for liberation. But, of the two, work in devotional service is better than renunciation of work.
Also the several verses following 12.8 clearly indicate something other than "none is better than any other"
Actually moving towards an impersonal perspective is the default position of religious principles when the personal notion of god becomes untenable.
You can find examples of this outside of hinduism. Of course it is a popular notion within hinduism, but that is mostly due to the british adopting the commentaries of sankaracharya as the singular authority in defining the vedas (which of course happened to suit their agenda of cultural domination at the time ... but that's a whole different story .....). So hinduism + academia always tend to = radical monism in western dialogue.
I wonder, of the religious people here at Sciforms, how many would agree with the above sentiment?
Radically homogenizing religiousity is one approach to henological discourse but it is not something I agree with (which of course isn't to say that I reject all henological discourse).
In short, the the main problem is that it renders progressive spiritual life impotent (and impotent progresive spiritual life is just another means of granting a materialistic agenda the default position).
IOW it stabilizes practitioners in an unsatisfactory level of performance.
I'm not religious, but I like the direction Americans are heading in. IF we have to be superstitious (or at least a sizable percentage of the population) THEN we should teach tolerance in our beliefs.
Some positive news:
Some other interesting news:
I think this is a good direction because it eliminates a "Hell" concept. We never really needed a Hell concept, we did find with Hades. So, it's good people are moving on and maturing in their beliefs.
Hell is also part of reincarnation.
Kind of like the place to go when you have a backlog of bad karma that's inhibiting the path forward.
So, that's great. Religious Fundamentalism is really the biggest enemy of our times so it's good to see people are, by their good nature, moving away from it.
Biggest enemies of our time?
Don't understand how "rampant consumerism in a culture of ever-increasing greed" slipped your radar ....