You constantly see catholic vs evangelical fighting, sunni and shia muslims fight all the time, jews always have those "secular" or "reform" vs "orthodox" arguments, but I've NEVER seen a hindu call another hindu a bad hindu for saying some god is an avatar of vishnu instead of khali or something like that.Are those arguments just not happening in English, or what's going on here? It's not like they're super peaceful people either, hindu on muslim violence happens practically daily.
>>219780957Why do you think they have five million gods? There's no orthodoxy. Some Jeet worships Trump's toupet, it's now part of the pantheon.
>>219780957As I understand it, Hinduism and other eastern religions are not strict at all and people can believe whatever they want and worship however they want. Hindu nationalism is built around resisting and opposing Islam (and Christianity to a lesser extent)
>>219780957You constantly see Catholics screeching on about evangelicals (almost never Baptists for whatever reason), Protestants in general, Mormons, church of England, and less commonly Orthodox. Almost everyone but convert zeal plastic Catholics is nice to other denominations and even religions and loves them
>>219783512yeah and no indians fight over it, isn't that something?>>219783540what about bhuddism?
>>219780957yeah
>>219785976Hindus see Buddhism as just another flavor of Hinduism iirc.
>>219783868Most of those e-cath types can barely distinguish evangelicals from mainline protestants, they probably think bitching about evangelicals covers baptists anyway
hinduism isnt a monolith and sectarianism does exist though i do agree it isnt as radical as the ones you mentioned in your post. you have vaishnavas shaivas shaktas and all those going on. it was a lot more pronounced a few centuries back but all of it got curbed under 1 single hindu identity. it still does exist in fringes.>>219785976>buddhism buddhism started off as a philosophy that opposes the vedas hence it got classified under the nastik branch (the one who do not believe in vedas being the supreme truth). slowly, just like other sects of the astik branch (believerd of vedas), buddhism jainism, anything and everything got merged. i truly believe this is a -ve in the sense the flavour is lost but its a +ve because it keeps "hinduism" alive as it is today.
Most Catholic v Evangelical shit is pure LARP. Nowadays half the Catholic right is entirely fused with Evangelical culture.
>>219789576your faggot ancestors were exiles for lambasting the churchnever heard of the phrase better turk than pope? most catholics that are not from amerikkka are in line with vatican ii while your fotm catholicism has that total depravity evangelical logos you're right
>>219780957Monotheism is the religion of the rational mind and has negative ascetic values. Polytheism is the religion of the free and is tantric in nature. Pursuit of eudaimonia was from a polytheistic society after all.
>>219789710>you're rightYeah I know I'm right you should have just posted that.But yeah I guess I shouldn't generalize from just American Catholics which are just Evangelical lite at this point.
>>219780957They didn't usually have mass sectarian conflicts, but in the early days they had a sort of temple arms race. Where they competed for religious patronage as temples held a lot of influence, wealth and land holdings. They looted, destroyed or converted the rival temples, build bigger ones adjacent, wrote polemics against the rivals.Our state was shavite, and fiercely competed against the vaishnavites. Some evidence of plundering temples and melting idols in kalhana's rajtarangini You don't see much competition now, partly thanks to the Anglo (and others) who dismantled the temple estate, bureaucratized finances, and reformed land grants and holdings. This decreased the influence of temples, and of course the census, which made the many religions a "Hinduism" catagory.
>>219789832What's the major difference you've noticed?
>>219780957Polytheists have looser religious views that drastically differ between the settlements.
>>219785976>what about bhuddism?They have sects or schools but none sees the others as invalid. >VarjayanaThe Tibetan school>MahayanaThe Sinosphere school (most famous one)>TheravadaThe Indian and SEA school There used to be Greco-Buddhism which may have influenced pyhrronism and stoicism but that's extinct.There's also Navayana or Ambedkarism but Buddhists see Navayana as to Buddhism like what Mormonism is to Chrisianity. It takes a universalizing religion but then truncates it to more specific ethno-cultural-political issues.
>>219780957I don't think relations between different castes are that nice though
>>219785976buddhism is much more of a codified religion and authority that opposes other doctrines (and has political sway) in other countries. i don't think it really exists in india.>>219790974anyway, although obviously opposed to sects, religious wars in europe were not really issues of doctrine, which the educated classes easily tolerated even if they thought it was retarded, but issues of power and other things (even land ownership). in england they called catholics 'popish' as a slur, which tells you exactly the problem they had with them. their loyalties were in question.
>>219780957That's how polytheism works. There's no one right thing to believe.
>>219785976>yeah and no indians fight over itunless you are implying that sikh are not indian and that india should be broken back into dozen of independent states
>>219780957Lol
>>219783512No, we don't have 5 million "gods," those are divine figures or deities that bilingual trannies mistranslated because they were comparing it to Judeo-Christian ideas of "god". There's only one god in Hinduism, titled "Bhagavan," who is the supreme being in every sect.>>219785976>Trump's toupet, it's now part of the pantheonStop fucking lying, nigger
>>219780957yes
