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VEDIC DHARMA AND THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION
The hells are unworthy of contemplation and appear to reflect vengeance more than compassion. They are at best exaggerations to prod a childish mind into a certain form of conduct. Islam and Protestant Christianity furthermore deny the use of images in religious worship and have historically gone so far as to encourage destruction of the religious artifacts of other people. This denial also betrays a partiality, an inability to understand various types of worship and their efficacy, such as a universal path requires.

Image worship is a tool of the devotional and artistic mind and is most significant relative to the worship of the Goddess or the Divine Feminine. Rejecting this aspect of human aspiration is narrow-minded and results in intolerance. In this regard Greek Orthodox and, to some extent, Catholic Christianity have been more tolerant, perhaps because of the open-mindedness engendered by such use of images. Judaism, on the other hand, though a non-imagistic tradition, has been more tolerant than any form of Christianity or Islam.

This is because it never was a missionary religions and allowed other people to follow their own and different religions without interference, even if these religions used images. Hinduism also contains non-imagistic approaches but these were never made into the exclusive truth but only one of several approaches.

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