Hinduism in America on the rise

Houston Examiner ^ | July 28, 2009 | D.M. Murdock

[Cronos]

I'd be interested to know if there was any previous development in Hindu mathematics that presaged this development, because of such widespread science enquiries in ancient Hinduism

There probably were -- howerver, you use "Hindu" in the cultural / civilisational sense here as even Christians in India are civilisationally and culturally Hindu. The descendents of Aryabhatta would include Catholics or other Christians today, no doubt. Indian civilisation is irrevocably Hindu, just as Europe-American civilisation is descended from Graeco-Roman. Religion also influenced both civilisations, yes, but civilisation plays a bigger role (of course you could argue civilisation and religion are intertwined in which case I'd point out that there have been Christians in india since at least 40~50 AD and they are socially and culturally indian)

[swarthyguy]

>>Most hindus go to Catholic schools,

Years ago, I got a funny reaction in Texas to the fact that for a few years I had attended one.

-Your parents let you go?

-My folks used to call ‘em Papists, and wouldn’t even like us to play with them.

Now there’s a rather large Cistercian monastery in Dallas.

[vishal]

Hi,

There are lot of mis-conceptions about the hinduism. As a hindu i respect jesus a lot. Hinduism is not a separate religion you don’t need to convert from christianity to a separate “ism”. Just prey to jesus and don’t point other religions. As hindus we believe in jesus. But the saddest part happening in india is that the current christian communities in india are approaching the uneducated and poor hindu houses and scaring them that their poverties are because of not believing christ. And they are openly argueing and giving public meetings critisizing hinduism every where. The christians in india gets lot of funds from western countries and not even 10% will be really spent to the poor.

We appreciate the help of western countries to indian poor. Indians are poor because of the british rule. British used to rape so many women and moved all the resources during colonial rule. thousands are shot. Still we mix with western countries and respect their beliefs. During mughal rule they muslim kings imposed 3 times tax on hindus and hence some of the hindus got converted to islam.

recently more hindus are being impatient and started attacking these poeple who are converting. But these incidents are very few in years. Convertion is not a problem, any hindu can believe any religion, but that religion is saying that hinduism is wrong. Which is a threat to hinduism.

You don’t need to believe hinduism. Just dont try to understand an english sentense without knowing alplabets.

For Ex: khali— The goddess who hindus believe. No one has actually know that she looks like that. One rushi/yogi/priest has given/assumed and given a picture to her thinking that she might had looked like that based on the understing of some of the hindusitic books.

Gods in diffent forms like monkey god hanuman: It is said in hindu epics that . Millions of years ago humans/daemons worshipped god, impressed him and posessed un-matchable powers like ... Any human should not have powers to kill them. Those daemons used to use those powers to destroy the world and humans. At that time even god also cant do anything as he he has blessed them with those powers. he re-incarnated in a different animal forms to kill those daemons. these again has lot of logics behind them and will be understood only after understanding all those.

Sorry for a long message guys...
blessings...