Can The World Survive Without Religion (Yes or No) A Hindu P (General)

by satyansh , Sunday, November 28, 2010, 19:55 (5107 days ago) @ David Turell

"How do you know a 'creator' messed up? You are attributing morals to the creator who may not have existing morals. You are making the same mistake western religions make. Giving attributes to whatever created this universe. Natural selection allowed illness, congenital mistakes, etc. Why should NS be so special and so powerful as the Darwinists explain?"-you are comparing NS to the creator. i am not. i am saying for me if there was a creator he would be above everything the human mind could conceive so i find it weird that we would have to have all these different types. but NS could make these mistakes as there could be mess ups in the process of NS. The creator i thought or what has been proposed over generations by mankind is the ever perfect one. Anyways I find the Darwin theory fascinating. I would love some even better theory to come up and prove Darwin wrong. thats the beauty of science.I never said Darwin is 100% right I just said I am a fan. there nothing wrong in being a fan.-"No you don't. I think (as my book does) that science is in the process of proving there is a universal intelligence. Ignore religion and study science. I've already accepted my moral basis for livig with everyone else. I'm just like your philosophy of living, but you are in a sense placing yourself above most people by stating that they need religion to keep them in a moral line, but you don't. I recognize that I am doing that also. Religion is not necessary for the well-thought-out person. but I need to know why there is anything. And I think studying the 'how' will tell me."-I am not placing myself above anyone. I am just stating the facts and realities of life that I have seen or experienced. 
Again for westerners religion is the word of god. For us it isnt the work of god. our books aren't the work of god and they were never actually presented as the work of god. hence Hinduism for us is nothing but a socio cultural identity and a way of life. It isnt a religion for a true Hindu. there lies the difference. The actual name of Hinduism in Sanskrit is Sanatana Dharma which means eternal law. it isnt written to praise the God. It was written down as a genuine philosophy by our ancient sages who just wrote on various topics which have shaped our culture and tradition one of which was god. for a person in India it is only when the Muslims and British came and invaded us has this whole Hinduism as a serious religion came in and ruined our culture. because before that every person who lived in India lived by the Indus river. the invaders couldn't call us sindhus so they called us Hindus. the philosophy of the people living near the Indus river became Hinduism. it wasn't a religion just a philosophy. our concept of life is very different from the western concept. there have been great scientists and mathematicians in Indian history and all of them were Hindu and scientists. Hinduism for a Indian is a cultural identity. unfortunately it is the Muslims and Christians in India that have messed up the concept of being Hindu here because they started all this you are a Hindu we are not Hindus crap because they invaded us. for me everyone who's born and raised in India irrespective of their colour or race in this country is a Hindu.-You will only understand the Hindu way if you live in India. It is too open ended my dear friend. your not the first one in my life who doesn't understand me because we come from a different upbringing. We have a strong cultural ethos in India which is shaped through years of cultural heritage and in that science has been given its due importance. But for a Hindu science teaches why there is life for example but the Vedas teach you how to live you life. Infact i didn't say I dont need religion. I said i am proud to be a Hindu and proud of its philosophies and my countries cultural identity and have been immensely respectful of the vedic philosophy because our philosophies of life here teach us by default to ask why. Maths and science are given utmost importance in Indian culture not from now on but since yrs when they first invented vedic Ganit ( ganit means mathematics). for us science is a part of life. it is a necessity to ask why. you will find Indians to be inquisitive in general. we dont need to ignore Hinduism to study science. which is where we differ from western people. we are encouraged to study science in our basic philosophies. I wish i could explain it better but maybe I am not doing good job in expressing myself.