Posted on 08/20/2009 9:05:25 PM PDT by Clemenza
America is not a Christian nation. We are, it is true, a nation founded by Christians, and according to a 2008 survey, 76 percent of us continue to identify as Christian (still, that's the lowest percentage in American history). Of course, we are not a Hindu—or Muslim, or Jewish, or Wiccan—nation, either. A million-plus Hindus live in the United States, a fraction of the billion who live on Earth. But recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity.
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The author is ignorant of Christaianity AND Hinduism. Hindus believe in a caste system. Nothing is more unamerican.
More proof that we need to grind all immigration to a screeching halt and only open the gates once we get assimilation under control.
Well, we can certainly hope that the Hindu caste system never catches on here. Otherwise, for instance, those who fell flat on their faces in North Carolina, would remain in the “Fell Flat On Their Faces In North Carolina” caste, for the rest of their lives, and their descendants as well, if they ever have any, for untold generations.
During the mid 1990s, I rember reading a Barna Research poll that showed some unorthodox trends in among Evangelicals.
50% of Evangelicals believed in a literal Hell
99% of Evangelicals believed in a literal Heaven
28% of Evangelicals belived in Absolute Truth. Its lower among the 18-29 year old crowd.
I suspect the trends would be worse now.
If this;
http://www.skepticfiles.org/atheist/relsh.htm
is true, then yes, I would agree that this has happened before.
Yup. And just like cattle, branded and placed behind barbed fences.
It’s more vedanta, or an earlier, purer form of Hinduism, rather than the latter, caste-based incarnation that could pertain.
But from Jeffersonian Deism to Emersonian Transcendentalism and the Holmesian New Thought movement, there’s always been a very positive, mystical strain to American spiritualism. It fits in naturally with Americans’ expansive optimism and trademark friendliness. Many of our cherished Christmas carols were written by American Unitarians, for example.
As Apu would say, “By the 7 arms of Visnu, I swear it. I am not a Hindu.”
Relax, people.
Hinduism is just paganism.
Absent Christianity, the world reverts to paganism. Just read the Bible see how many times the Jews abandoned the faith. Not exactly shocking.
Not believing in absolute truth and believing in God means God has no absolute truth. I'm having logical trouble with that one. If a Being is omnipotent and knows all rules of the universe, then some of these rules must be absolute.
I wonder what these people are thinking. Do they not think there is absolute truth in even one matter? If even one case of absolute truth exists, then it exists. If they answer "no" then they would have to say that not even in one instance does God have an absolute truth.
Hardly anyone thinks anymore. People just get programmed by the media and schools.
A perusal of the Bhagavad-Gita would say otherwise about the “paganism” of this religion.
Here’s a sample:
http://www.bartleby.com/45/4/12.html
So do the Democrats, they are just less obvious about it.
That must've been pre- Karl Marx, lol.
Sorry, they are pagans whether you like it or not. It doesn’t mean all their beliefs are wrong. Paganism after all evolved out of God worship.
--- Clemenze, who grew up in Long Island, the "Cafeteria Catholic" center of America (although New Jersey is close).
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