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   Ji Fu (fu@hostux.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 03:29:58 JST 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.

   ♻ @feed@www.mattersindica.com Hindu flags planted atop churches in Madhya Pradesh – Matters India

   https://mattersindia.com/2024/01/hindu-flags-planted-atop-churches-in-madhya-pradesh/

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     Vidyārthī (विद्यार्थी) (vidyarthi@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 08:39:53 JST Vidyārthī (विद्यार्थी)

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     "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.

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     Vidyārthī (विद्यार्थी) (vidyarthi@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 20:31:17 JST Vidyārthī (विद्यार्थी)

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     @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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     🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷 (altlife@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:52:19 JST 🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷

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     @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 🪷 (altlife@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 13:47:26 JST 🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷

     • fu

     @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.