(November 17, 2022 at 10:13 am)Ahriman Wrote:(November 17, 2022 at 10:03 am)Angrboda Wrote: Feel free to explain. I could use another opportunity to point out that you have shit for brains.
A major part of Hinduism is recognizing the existence of a number of gods, but if you're a "secular Hindu" you don't think any of those gods exist, so how can the idea of "secular Hinduism" be a meaningful or relevant thing?
Some people are culturally in some religion while being atheists. Haven't you heard of secular Jews? For example, Roger Ebert was an atheist and admired Richard Dawkins while he considered himself culturally Catholic, and even had a Catholic funeral in a cathedral with a priest giving a speech.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
