[Steelfish]

This would come as a surprise (nay, shock) to Hinduism’s clerical classes and it’s millions of followers in the sub-continent.

You write: “Hinduism doesn’t even HAVE a basic dogma or rules. What you’ve specified can all be removed and hinduism would be unchanged.”

If by this you mean that just about anyone can claim to be a Hindu including those who do and do not believe in gods incarnated as monkeys, baboons and reptiles, and who believe that an immersion in the Ganges can be regarded as an attempt at toxic suicide, then we have a belief system that is as evanescent and shifting as the desert winds and sands.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

If by this you mean that just about anyone can claim to be a Hindu including those who do and do not believe in gods incarnated as monkeys, baboons and reptiles, and who believe that an immersion in the Ganges can be regarded as an attempt at toxic suicide, then we have a belief system that is as evanescent and shifting as the desert winds and sands.

Show this from the Gita, Sir.

I can also post pictures of Catholics kissing pieces of encapsulated dead flesh, worshiping statues of impaled creatures on crosses, raising dead men into gods they call "saints", and the like.

I can also quote Jefferson, Adams, Martin Luther on their opinion of the Catholic Church as a beast that must die.

I can also quote the laws and enactments of this very Nation against Catholics.

I can quote the effects illegal, criminal alien Catholics on this country.

I can quote the desperate state of entire populations of Catholics in places like Brazil, Mexico, and the rest of South America.

Where do you want me to begin?

[Cronos]

This would come as a surprise (nay, shock) to Hinduism’s clerical classes and it’s millions of followers in the sub-continent. You write: “Hinduism doesn’t even HAVE a basic dogma or rules. What you’ve specified can all be removed and hinduism would be unchanged.”

Yes -- let's ask a Hindu, myTcc: how do you define Hinduism? Does being a Hindu mean that you HAVE to worship Ganesha or Vishnu or any particular god? Or that you have to believe in the Gita (that's as close to a common point, but you don't HAVE to)

If by this you mean that just about anyone can claim to be a Hindu including those who do and do not believe in gods...

Yes

then we have a belief system that is as evanescent and shifting as the desert winds and sands.

True -- it is shifting, as I said, it's more a civilisational belief than what a monotheist would understand as a religion. I agree that for us monotheists it can be very difficult to understand or even classify Hinduism.