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Can someone be hindu and a Atheist?
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RE: Can someone be hindu and a Atheist?
November 10, 2013 at 7:36 pm
(November 8, 2013 at 10:09 pm)genkaus Wrote:
(November 8, 2013 at 5:28 pm)Dionysius Wrote: Hindu = Indus dwellers or those who dwell by the indus river or something like that. Insofar as Sankhya it bears the stamp of hinduism - it uses their religious symbols it just removes the superstitious aspects.

Given that Indus also flows through Tibet and Pakistan, that would make all the Muslims and Buddhists living there Hindus as well. That's the problem with conflating a religious identity with its geographical origin.

It bears the stamp of Hinduism only so far as proponents of Hinduism have been able to put it on it. Its a philosophy - it has no symbols or rituals to use. Saying that is like saying Aristotle's philosophy borrows from Greek mythology - it just removes the whole mythology first.


I agree to an extent. It seems like further discussion on the aspect of origination would just lead to a pointless symantical debate so i'll leave you to it.

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