Hinduism vs Christianity

[StuartJ]

When it comes to matters of faith, Hinduism has real advantages over Christianity.

Firstly, the costumes are WAY better.

Hinduism has up to 33,000,000 versions of "God" that all come from Atman. Christianity has a mere 3 maximum. And neither religion offers the tiniest shred of evidence that ANY of them exist outside the imagination.

Both religions have "scriptures". But neither demonstrates that so much as a verse came from ANY version of "God".

Hinduism was around for about 3,000 years before Jesus burst through the hymen of the BVM.

Christianity promises a mansion in Heaven, or eternity roasting in Hell - or maybe a bit of roasting for a while in Purgatory. Hinduism offers a constant cycle of reincarnation until you get it right and attain moshka. No evidence from either, of course.

When it comes to Salvation, the monopoly lies in the hands of Jesus ... and is administered by his servants on earth. Hindus reach enlightenment by the Path of Knowledge, the Path of devotion, or the Path of Good Deeds.

Women are considered equal to men and there are many Goddesses in Hinduism. In Christianity, women have been - and still are in places - second-class persons, and in the biblical writings are to blame for, well, pretty much everything really.

As a faith community - especially if you're a woman - is Hinduism a better deal than Christianity ...?

[StuartJ]

Celebrating Hinduism.



Celebrating Christianity.

[Elijah John]

[The notion of a Trinity of Gods has enfeebled the belief of one God. A multiplication of belief acts as a division of belief; and in proportion as anything is divided, it is weakened.

Said Thomas Paine regarding the Christian pantheon known as the Trinity. The principle applies by extension to Hinduism thousands of times over.

By Paine's reasoning, (and I agree) Hinduism would suffer by comparison. Advantage, Christianity. Even greater advantage, Deism.

[1213]

Hinduism has up to 33,000,000 versions of "God" that all come from Atman. Christianity has a mere 3 maximum. And neither religion offers the tiniest shred of evidence that ANY of them exist outside the imagination.

Hinduism seems to have high inflation rate with their gods. I rather keep one God that has something wise to say than millions of irrelevant gods that have nothing good to say.

Both religions have "scriptures". But neither demonstrates that so much as a verse came from ANY version of "God".

The Bible scriptures show understanding, wisdom and truth of this reality, which to me proves it is not just manmade. I think the content of the scripture tells also something about the source.

Hinduism was around for about 3,000 years before Jesus burst through the hymen of the BVM.

Firstly, I don’t believe Hinduism has existed so long. And secondly, Christians should be according to the Bible counted as Jews. Christ (= Messiah) means the King of Jews. And the history of Jews goes to the very beginning of people.

Christianity promises a mansion in Heaven, or eternity roasting in Hell - or maybe a bit of roasting for a while in Purgatory. Hinduism offers a constant cycle of reincarnation until you get it right and attain moshka. No evidence from either, of course.

Interesting thing is, the Moksha sounds very much like hell in the Bible.

Moksha is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism which refers to various forms of emancipation, enlightenment, liberation, and release. In its soteriological and eschatological senses, it refers to freedom from saṃs�ra, the cycle of death and rebirth. In its epistemological and psychological senses, moksha refers to freedom from ignorance: self-realization, self-actualization and self-knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moksha

...destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matt. 10:28

Both seem to mean permanent end. Or what do you think, have I understood correctly?

Women are considered equal to men and there are many Goddesses in Hinduism. In Christianity, women have been - and still are in places - second-class persons, and in the biblical writings are to blame for, well, pretty much everything really.

It is interesting, how that can be. Bible tells that men should love women like Jesus loved his people and was willing to die for them. Bible demands men to love their wives and be even willing to die for them (Efe. 5:25-29). Christian countries have given women many freedoms. How it is with Hinduism? What the Hindu scriptures say about how to treat women? If Hinduism is better for women, how you explain this?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... men-survey

[Divine Insight]

[The notion of a Trinity of Gods has enfeebled the belief of one God. A multiplication of belief acts as a division of belief; and in proportion as anything is divided, it is weakened.

Said Thomas Paine regarding the Christian pantheon known as the Trinity. The principle applies by extension to Hinduism thousands of times over.

By Paine's reasoning, (and I agree) Hinduism would suffer by comparison. Advantage, Christianity. Even greater advantage, Deism.

Why should it be important to believe in just one God?

That could only be important if God is seen at an ultimate dictator authoritarian who can't get along with other dictator authoritarian.

If you stop and think about it, the God of Christianity is guilty of the same greed as the Christian Satan. Satan wanted to take over God's position of being the ultimate authority. But God refused to step down from that position and demanded to be the ultimate authority himself.

So the God in Christianity is nothing more than the Satan who won the position of being the ultimate authoritarian.

Actually a polytheism where all the Gods get along is far superior to a monotheistic fascism.

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Having said all the above, I need to point out that even Hinduism is just another train-wrecked religion that became dramatically derailed from its original philosophy just like Christianity.

Hinduism was originally based on pantheism not on polytheistic Gods. Those ideas evolved over time.

But there's nothing innately wrong with polytheism. In the Mediterranean region polytheism got a bad rap from Greek polytheism where the many Greek Gods could not get along and ended up fighting and quarreling with each other just like humans.

But if there truly were many omnipotent Gods they would all get along perfectly and have no reason to fight against each other. After all what reason could any omnipotent entity have for fighting with another omnipotent being?

The whole idea of polytheistic God fighting between themselves is a human construction.

There is nothing of value in the idea of a monotheistic God, unless your view of God is that of a selfish jealous egotistical dictator.

Perhaps that's how Thomas Paine saw God? After all that is the Biblical picture of God. The Biblical God is a self-confessed "jealous" God who demands to be obeyed and actually threatens to hurt anyone who refuses to obey him.

So the Biblical God is a picture of a monotheistic God who's actually an absolute jerk.

You'd be far better off having an infinity of Gods who actually all got along with each other and didn't have flawed character traits like jealously and a desire to hurt anyone who doesn't agree with them.

The monotheistic God of Christianity is actually a quite disgusting paradigm if you stop and think about. It's just a single hermit God who is jealous and threatens to hurt people. How is that good? It's not.

[Divine Insight]

Christian countries have given women many freedoms.

Hardly. What has actually happened is that secular democratic countries have given women many freedoms. And many of the "Christian" within those secular countries have actually objected.

Besides what right would a Christian have to go against the laws of their God. Christians can't change the laws of their God. That would be heresy.

In fact, a democracy is itself Biblical heresy. The Bible supports theocratic monarchies where God himself places the King in a position of authority. According to the Bible on one has a position of authority if they were put in that position by God himself.

The Bible supports fascist dictatorships, and not free democracies. Therefore any nation that is a free democracy cannot be said to be a "Christian nation". It has already rejected the absolute authority of theocratic monarchy.

[StuartJ]

[Replying to post 4 by 1213]

And the history of Jews goes to the very beginning of people.

That is utterly false.

Jews originated as an ethnic and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE,[9] in the part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews

Outside Bible class, people were around long, long before Jews, or the Hebrew language or the mythological Yahweh, or the mud-man Adam.

[StuartJ]

[Replying to post 4 by 1213]

Both seem to mean permanent end. Or what do you think, have I understood correctly?

No.

I suggest you study further.

[StuartJ]

The Lord Krishna descends in human form.



The Lord Jesus descends in human form.

Equal absence of evidence for both.

But Lord Krishna doesn't hold the monopoly on Salvation.

[StuartJ]

Rituals:

Christian - pretending to eat the flesh and drink the blood of a human sacrifice to a god.




Hindu - offering foods to various versions of "God". None of which represent the meat and blood of a human sacrifice to any god.