| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| HINDU POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CRITIQUES | |
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| Hindus
need not go out of their way to criticize Christians and Muslims and
should respect the right to privacy in religious matters. But when
these religious groups attack or malign Hinduism, then Hindus must
respond. This is not a call to retaliation but to right
communication. Hindus must challenge efforts to convert them and
present a critique of exclusivist religions that does not try to
apologize for their history of aggression. Hindus must take note of
the beliefs of Christians and Muslims who are seeking to convert
them and work to counter their anti-Hindu actions.
Hindus should wield the sword of truth to cut through false beliefs that turn human life, not into the pursuit of Self-realization, which is its real purpose, but into an attempt to impose the same belief on all people. Hindus need to respond to the aggressiveness of missionary religions with a warrior spirit of defending Dharma. They must challenge all false or imperfect doctrines and not accept anything less than the complete truth of the conscious universe, which cannot be scaled down to accommodate churches, holy books, or prophets. They cannot compromise the law of karma or the practices of Yoga, or other great truths to gain the acceptance of religions which are caught in inferior doctrines of sin and salvation, heaven and hell. |
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