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Is Hinduism Capable of Reform or Made Relevant?
by Khandu Patel on Jun 14, 2007 07:36 AM   Permalink | Hide replies

If Hinduism as a religion is intended to Crown the sovereignty of our country, it clearly fails when our temples trear "non-Hindu" visitors as a cause of pollution. This is obviously an extension of the caste pollution that high castes complain when meeting with lower castes. The Samoothiripad (Zamorin) of Kozhikode is right in his claim that priests had traditionally decided these matters. If they are unwilling to end such practices, they can hardly be considered fit to run national institutions. This raises the question of their management which the state has been totally unfit to regulate as it repuditiates what should have been the adoption of the Hindus as the principles of the state. The Government is considering a proposal to grant a right of entry to all people but I presume that would exclude mosques which bar entry to all except Muslims. There is no equity in such a proposal. To attempt to regulate Hindu temples in this way is bound to send out a single that once again Hindus have been picked out to the exclusion of other guilty parties. Conditions of admission as places of worship temples properly lie with the temples. Hindu temples should have long ago realised the inequities in the practice of the religion, and they have a long way to go to put their house in order. Caste is no way to regulate admission and they need to provide more than rituals to justify their place of honour in the nation

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  RE:Is Hinduism Capable of Reform or Made Relevant?
by Kumar on Jun 15, 2007 12:57 AM   Permalink
I think Hinduism's time is coming. It just needs to free itself from the bigots, the castiest and the haters who have manipulated their way to the top by way of their great skills in deciet, dis-honesty and the lack of justice and morality.

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  RE:Is Hinduism Capable of Reform or Made Relevant?
by Jas Sand on Jun 15, 2007 01:50 AM   Permalink
I agree,

but the fct remains that EVERY CASTE in India is responsible for the caste system. All Hindus are equally responsible for this state of affairs ...

A Brahmins mistreats a Kshatriya, A Khshatria ill-treats and OBC and an OBC never dines next to an SC and an SC never sits next to an ST ....
Everybody follows the caste system!

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  RE:Is Hinduism Capable of Reform or Made Relevant?
by Kumar on Jun 15, 2007 03:20 AM   Permalink
Jas Sand, I agree with what you are saying. But when we try to break this evil system who is defending and giving all kind of excuses saying it's a natural division of labor? No surprise, it's the guys who pretend to be at the top of this useless hierarchy. Why it has to be the the RSS and the tantris who always start this kind of evil drama to weaken India by dividing it into castes?

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