My honest review of Christianity

[genkaus]

I find it particularly amusing that the caste system boils down to priests at the top, military directly beneath, tradesmen beneath that, and unskilled labor at the bottom. How very spiritual and enlightened. Couldn't imagine, other than a dispatch from the cosmos itself, how such a system might have originated.....

To be more accurate, its brains at the top (i.e. all pursuits of knowledge), warriors below them (those who protect), traders after that and unskilled labor at the bottom. You see similar themes in division of labor in Plato's philosophy as well.

That's being abandoned by hindus of late in any case. Amusingly, christians (in India) seemed to stick with the caste system (or conversely abandon it) at approximately the same rate as hindus. Talk about a crossover act.

Really? I thought missionaries in India targeted the lower castes because conversion rates were higher among them.

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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.

I've always found the idea of blaming Hinduism for the practice of Sati to be confusing. It is a practice that grew more from financial considerations than any actual religious strictures. Sure, the religion was modified to support the practice because, as we know, people often do use religion to justify their actions - like the imperialists justifying colonialism through Christianity. That doesn't mean Christianity is to blame for colonial practices.

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.

Ugly? White-skinned? I think you are confusing the Hindu caste system with Christian slavery.