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To: Cronos

“Hinduism in all its forms is myth that has survived the long bygone era of paganism only because of the vast swath of illiterate Indian masses. Its belief, practice, rituals and customs can only charitably be described as barbaric and unfit for accommodation in western societies whose civilization”

The survival alone of a certain dogma does not disprove what is a myth, a legend, or a belief. But when a belief inherently incorporates rituals, practices and customs in ingraining into the body politic and its customary laws a doctrine of casteism; dowry; and misogyny that includes a preferential of female abortions, it is an accommodation that we cannot and must not make with western civilization.


71 posted on 07/30/2009 10:36:36 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
But when a belief inherently incorporates rituals, practices and customs in ingraining into the body politic and its customary laws a doctrine of casteism; dowry; and misogyny that includes a preferential of female abortions, it is an accommodation that we cannot and must not make with western civilization

hinduism does not have dowry and misogyny as it's basic DOGMA or tenet of faith. Neither is the caste system a basic dogma of Hinduism.

Hinduism doesn't even HAVE a basic dogma or rules. What you've specified can all be removed and hinduism would be unchanged.
81 posted on 07/30/2009 11:15:38 AM PDT by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
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