| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The
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| HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM: WHAT IS IT? |
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What Hindu
community is insisting upon the same domination of one religious belief, law and social
practices like that of Saudi Arabia? Which Hindus are more fundamentalist in their beliefs
and practices than the Saudis, whom few are calling fundamentalists?
Hence we must ask: What are Hindus being accused as fundamentalists for doing? Is it
belief in the unique superiority of their religion, the sole claim of their scripture as
the Word of God, their savior or prophet as ultimate for all humanity, that those who
believe in their religion go to an eternal heaven and those who don't go to an eternal
hell, the need to convert the world to their beliefs? These views are found not only in
Christian and Islamic fundamentalism but even among the orthodox . There are no Hindu fundamentalist statements of such nature. Can we
imagine any Hindu swearing that there is no God but Rama and Tulsidas is his only prophet,
that the Ramayana is the only true scripture, that those who believe differently will be
condemned by Rama to eternal damnation and those who criticize Tulsidas should be killed? |
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