Ji Fu
If you need to utilize force to promote your religion, maybe there is something wrong with your religion. Westerners have a perspective that Hinduism is a #religion of #peace. Ghandi was peaceful, that doesn't mean #hinduism is peaceful.
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Vidyārthī (विद्यार्थी)
@Fu
"Ahiṁsā Paramo Dharmaḥ, Dharma Hiṁsā Tathiva Ca" - Nonviolence is the ultimate (social) duty, except until the path of violence is "crucially inevitable" for the purpose of maintaining (social) order.
We aren't living in that kind of a world yet, so you can't judge a religion by some people's actions.
fu
Vidyārthī (विद्यार्थी)
@fu without Dharma (here interpreted as social order) people tend to turn into materialists, greed and chaos prevails. The weak is oppressed and no one cares.
Dharma brings responsibility, discipline, sustainability and productivity to society. But most importantly it brings humanity; not as a detriment to progress but as something to explore and experience.
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fu
I know that, but mostly only because I'm an engineer and I work with a lot of people from India. Most Americans only know of Gandhi. The non-violent overthrow of the British from the subcontinent is about the only thing that was mentioned , even in passing, about Hindus, in any of my 16 years of public schooling, including my first bachelor's degree being in Political Science.
those people weren't Christians. They may have belonged to a religious organization that claims to believe in Jesus, but they aren't Christians. Religion is volent, Jesus is not. Like my dad used to say "Its not about religion, its about relationship" & "Men who fear hell seek religion, men who've been through hell seek Jesus"
🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷
@Fu First of all, his name is Gandhi. Secondly, a lot of Christian missionaries carried out forceful conversions in India, violence both physical and sexual is documented, does that mean Christianity isn't a peaceful religion. If people choose to be violent, religion is just an excuse to carry out their violent fantasies. There's a lot of good one can learn from every religion if they choose to. Also Gandhi isn't the flag bearer of Hinduism. Pl read Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads.
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🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷
@fu Your dad is a wise man. Gandhi is certainly a very important politicocultural figure for us, not denying that but no one person unless that person is an avatar can be considered flag bearer of Hinduism in conventional terms. That's what I meant. I don't think religion encourages people to become violent but some people's interpretation and inability to tolerate difference in opinion is what leads to violence. At the root of it, it's just human nature and it's workings imho.
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