(October 18, 2014 at 12:30 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(October 18, 2014 at 12:15 pm)TreeSapNest Wrote: Perhaps of Hinduism it is more appopriate to say the consequence lies in the next life rather than the afterlife. As I understand it, one does not progress up in caste in the next life without first excelling or some such thing within the caste they currently find themselves.
I particularly dislike the Hindu system because it allows believers to blame people in unfortunate circumstances for having been substandard in their last life. It's prosperity theology on steroids.
How is that any different than the God of the Abraham books?
Even though those books don't have a concept of prior lives all three of those God claims still have a character that blames your conditions on you when they set the conditions up in the first place.
The evolutionary reason these horrible concepts exist is it allows humans to be judgmental of others and give them a sense of superiority.
