similarities between New Age atheists and religious nut jobs (Introduction)

by satyansh , Wednesday, December 08, 2010, 18:11 (5076 days ago) @ George Jelliss

"You only need to google for "hindu violence" to come up with numerous stories of violence between Hindus and other religious believers, such as Muslims and Christians. There's a lot of it going on in India now."-What violence are you talking about my dear friend. Your knowledge of the history of India is indeed very poor my dear friend. I would recommend you understand what being a Hindu is and than argue with me. Do you even know why people in India got called Hindus. Please do your research and then i will explain to you in detail. Understanding the history of India is very important. The very people you're fans of have not been able to criticize eastern philosophies because most of the conflicts in the eastern regions have spread on the conquest of land and not religion. You're database needs to be updated. I will just quote Richard Dawkins whom you happen to be agree with for a change:-" Hinduism and Buddhism offer much more sophisticated worldviews (or philosophies) and I see nothing wrong with these religions."-But that doesnt mean i say abrahamic faiths are bad. they r a lil messed up but not that bad. they could be there and not cause harm.-This and many other famous atheists with the exception of Hitchens whose criticism again come out of the same misunderstanding that Hindus fighting Muslims are because of religion when the fact is that it has always been a quest of who controls the land of India since the Muslims invaded us first followed by the British.-"Some 'opinions' are more dangerous than others I fancy."-it might be harmful according to you and i dun believe that we are qualified to justify what is right and wrong.-"How far then do you actually believe in all the gods and reincarnations of them that form the basis of Hindu culture?"-again please increase your knowledge of Hinduism. if Hinduism presented this theory well i will give you a small example.-An excerpt from an ancient sacred text of Hinduism called Rigveda (~1700-1100 BCE), or more specifically the Nasadiya Sukta, a creation hymn, says: 
"Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? 
Whence is this creation? The gods came afterwards, with the creation of the universe. 
Who then knows whence it has arisen? Whence this creation has arisen-perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not-the one who looks down on it, in the highest heaven, only He knows-or perhaps He does not know"-This is the very reason Hinduism is a agnostic faith. no hindu scripture actually propagated any particular idea. It was truly agnostic and by the way the other 2 great eastern philosophies did not even consider a creator god. So we have 1 agnostic and 2 atheistic philosophies from the point of a creator god.-"Historically I can't think of any examples of atheists coming to power and destroying churches. Usually they just convert them to secular uses. Atheism is just a nonbelief in the supernatural, it is not a political belief. Atheists can be capitalist, socialist, communist, fascist, or whatever."-Now you may say that they were not aggressive because they were atheists but the bottom line is they were atheists and i dun believe that they did kill people because they did not believe in god. I am naming Lenin and Stalin. Why i am naming them is even if you reject religion or god it does not mean you would be any less aggressive.-I am not atheism i am against it trying to project that they have a better option. you can exercise your option just dont say it is better than the other options. it suits you thats fine dont say it is better. right or wrong can be very deceptive.