The thing I always heard was that hinduism was a way of life not a religion.
But no matter how many times apologists say that hinduism has nothing to do with the following things- it does.
Sati- burning of widows alive when the husband is to be cremated. This is because women were made only to serve the husband. And with him dead, she had no purpose anymore. OF COURSE the husband is going to die before the girl if he's 30 years older than her. Thankfully this was banned during British rule and only one case pops up every decade or so now.
2) the caste system was just a "divinely ordered" way of life to keep society moving forward. Thereby keeping the ugly and poor at the bottom and the rich and white skinned people at the top.
I'll continue later
But no matter how many times apologists say that hinduism has nothing to do with the following things- it does.
Sati- burning of widows alive when the husband is to be cremated. This is because women were made only to serve the husband. And with him dead, she had no purpose anymore. OF COURSE the husband is going to die before the girl if he's 30 years older than her. Thankfully this was banned during British rule and only one case pops up every decade or so now.
2) the caste system was just a "divinely ordered" way of life to keep society moving forward. Thereby keeping the ugly and poor at the bottom and the rich and white skinned people at the top.
I'll continue later
