(February 20, 2011 at 9:49 pm)padraic Wrote: Your comment about the statue is simplistic and indicates a distressing ignorance of Hinduism. Before making more fatuous comments, I suggest actually reading some Hindu texts.
Sorry, then I'll take back what I said about the statues.
Maybe the idols are a representation of a single god because I've heard some people say that Hinduism originally started off as a monotheistic religion.
Quote:Hinduism is a diverse system of thought with beliefs spanning monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, monism, atheism, agnosticism, gnosticism among others; and its concept of God is complex and depends upon each particular tradition and philosophy. It is sometimes referred to as henotheistic (i.e., involving devotion to a single god while accepting the existence of others), but any such term is an overgeneralization.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism