01.11.11
Eastern religions
Eastern religions By ASTO
Added: Monday, 10 January 2011 at 1:27 PM
http://richarddawkins.net/discussions/576165-eastern-religions
This is a totally wrong-headed perspective induced by scientism. Buddhism, setting aside Hinduism and its complications for a moment, is one of the most classic evolutionary transforms of world religion form the Axial Age. For Dawkins style idiots to pontificate here is ridiculous, and shows the harm done by current scientific stupidity.
I come from a Hindu tradition and have studied most of eastern religions, before studying western ones. Through my higher education and, knowledge of physics in particular, I could find my way out of all religions. But I strongly feel that eastern religions, Hinduism or Buddhism in particular, due to their much deeper philosophical basics, are much more difficult to be debated against than Christianity or Islam. I take my Hindu friends down very easily by pointing out the real life atrocities, such as caste system, practiced in the name of religion. But I find myself weaponless when I have to attack the fundamental of Hinduism. For example, the god described in the fundamental Hinduism is almost as abstract as the current ‘philosophy’ of modern Physics (I am doing a physics PhD at Caltech). He doesn’t punish people, he doesn’t want to be worshiped, he doesn’t send you to hell ; he is just there as a pure consciousness out of which human consciousness is born and only person-like attribute he has is, that, he “wants” you to perform your duties (Karma). How do you take issues with such a god? Don’t you think it’s much difficult than to speak against Christian or Islamic gods?
I have always hoped to see blows on these religions by Prof Dawkins or other celebrated leaders of reasoning, but I haven’t found many. We can’t ignore them as they make half the world population
Am I right in these observations? Is it true that eastern religions indeed stand on a firmer ground of basic philosophy than the western ones? I am not very sure but it seems plausible..
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whyking said,
January 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm
i agree.i find it strange that eastern religions are completely ignored & comic book religions like christianity are taken as proof of spirituality.
nemo said,
January 20, 2011 at 6:53 am
Christianity is such a tricky exercise in cultural domination that we fail to see how it works, or what it is doing.