Here is what an atheist has to say about Hinduism :http://reddit.com/info/scgc/comments/csd4y Quote :"However, most important/basic Hindu texts (Vedas) (and Buddhist texts) don't claim to be "Absolute, final truths" and actually recommend that the basic tenets be updated as new discoveries and new knowledge is brought in.. So, theoretically, one can add Darwinian evolution to the Hindu Vedas and the Hindu scholars will (have to?) rethink their philosophy incorporating this new information.. These texts also recommend that a potential follower, using his own critical thinking, question and explore all that his teacher and these religious text have to say and only accept it if he feels so.. No Abrahamic faith-based text encourages critical thinking or questioning the bible/koran..
Do you know there are PURELY atheistic version of Hinduism..?
"The Universe (everything in it) is one single entity, which due to unknown reasons express itself as matter or energy. That entity is not attributed any supernatural powers or intelligence..and hence is not a god or a deity.."
And this is from a few thousand years back.. If a philosophy that old is mature enough to not attribute anything to a "supreme intelligence", I am sure it will be mature enough to change (even reverse) it's theories with recent discoveries like evolution and quantum theory..
Also, all those "evil" parts of Abrahamic faiths (Islam and Christianity) which demand unconditional belief and include evangelism (ie "spreading this faith") as a requirement are absent in Hindu and Buddhist Texts..
IMO, atheism is still a better option, but the arguments against Hinduism and Buddhism are not as easy as the Bible or Koran.."
