PEACE being the greatest concern of man, all religions attach importance to it. Indeed, peace is the essence of all religions, the reason being that the objectives of religion can never be fulfilled without peace. The aims of every religion, in principle, are man’s spiritual development and the transformation of each individual into a noble personality.
"Women enjoyed far greater freedom in the Vedic period than in later India. She had more to say in the choice of her mate than the forms of marriage might suggest. She appeared freely at feasts and dances, and joined with men in religious sacrifice. She could study, and like Gargi, engage in philosophical disputation. If she was left a widow there were no restrictions upon her remarriage."
The Vedas teach equality among the people in society. No one is superior or no one is inferior. We find Samaanatha in the Vedas.
Rigveda says : –
“Te ajyesthaa akanisthaasa udbhido amadhyamaaso mahasaa vi vavridhuh sujaataaso janushaa prishnimataro divo marya aa no achaa jigatana|” – Rig: 5-59-6
Unfortunately it had became political parties involement to manipulate the facts and hiding the truth and adopt the policy of "Divide and Rule". It's not fault in religion it's fault in PEOPLE who want to gain authority and control People. I hope they understand.
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In my Eastern religions class this semester, Hinduism was a religion we studied.
The caste system describes the hierarchy but doesn't really have a part in creating it, except perhaps in encouraging people to become a priest.
I don't think women are treated poorly... although some hindu texts have pretty negative views towards women.
I'm one Indian girl, I belong to a Hindu family, so follow Hinduism but unlike majority Hindus, I believe in other religions equally, just my way of living resembles to that of Hindus because I am brought up by my family like that. The principles & moral values that Hinduism teaches/ advocates are peaceful & ancient Hindu texts have mentions that all really point towards what can be claimed as a guideline/ system moral, peaceful living.
Any religion is whatever its followers make of it. There's Hindus who live Hinduism in peaceful ways and there's ones who don't. Same goes for any religion.
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In many ways Hinduism is more peaceful than the Abrahamic religions. I don't hear so much about Hindus, Buddhists, Jainism followers who do violence in their religions' names. If they first do something violent, it's because of other reasons that has nothing to do with religion to do. It's however true Hinduism is an old religion which explains gender roles, the caste system and some other conservative traditions.
It's probably because of Hindus and Buddhists believes in Karma where your deeds determine your future much more than if you believe in a deity or not, since they're not so eager at converting like Abrahamic religions or start religious wars and are focusing at other things instead. Hindus and Jainists also believe everything has a soul and is alive with something godly in it, therefor many also choose to respect animals and be vegetarians/vegans instead.Not quite as nice as Buddhism or Jainism and does have issues like the caste system but far better than Islam/Christianity/Judaism.
People can say religion is what you make of it but frankly Islam, Christianity, and Judaism only function in modern society by ignoring half of what they're supposed to do.I think you may be confusing the religion with the culture that prevails in that part of the world. As far as I am aware all main world faiths are peaceful.
A case in point would be Islam. It's a peaceful religion, so much so that the standard greeting, asalamu alaikum, means peace be upon you. But as I've suggested above, often people confuse the Islamic religion with the culture of the people. For instance in Islam men and women are equals, but cultural practices often mean that females are treated worse than men...See there are Hindus who are eager to show their power through putting up silly stupid argument and fight against opposite party. But Hindu peaples like your friend who are literate and down to earth just like any other good gentlemen, they will be consider peaceful
Relatively peaceful compared to most religions? Yes. But like pretty much every religion (except for Jainism, as far as I've found so far) it has some history with violence.
It's got NOTHING on Christianity and Islam though. Those religions are built on mountains of dead bodies.The news isn't exactly full of Hindu terrorists, but then what news can you trust these days? I don't live near any Hindus so how would I know?
Like most religions I think it's reasonable to assume people do both good and evil in the name of their imaginary friends.The caste system and the treatment of women has nothing to do with the religion. Thats just their society and how they run their social lives. It's like any other religion and having people who are radicals and such when the religion is peaceful and preaches acceptance and love.
Actually you'll find most of the Hindu are vegans and most of the people marry only once means there's very few divorce cases and I'll say there are some people who do wrongs in the name of Hinduism but overall it's a peaceful religion
Peaceful but old so it doesn’t see women as equal to men as we do in crystanity by the way I’m not saying we need to get rid of it just change the view it’s the same with the muslim culture there are things old factions about it but it’s not a bad culture every culture is bad in some way Christianity has bit that are anti gay and women are less than men but crystianity doesn’t sport slavery it supports end entries suvitued which is someone who sells them self for a setter amount of time to someone for money I fact I’m pretty sure crystian majorty country’s are the only country that got rid of slavery as every country big enough and strong enough had slaves but we got rid of our slaves as it was wrong we belt to stop slavery because it’s horrendous. Thank you for reading by the way I’m not crystian I was but I just think all religion are bs so I’m a believer in silence
It may be peaceful, but it's also cruel due to the things you mentioned.
Most religions are peaceful even Muslims, but all groups have their radicals. We don't judge all Christians because of the crusades, we don't look down on white people for the kkk either
It always is up to the people/followers. I mean look at what happened to some Christian in India, and people selling cow etc. They beat them like animals.
For the most part, it is. But there are exceptions.
Besides the caste system, you can check other web sites and read about Hindus burying Muslims alive purely for their different ideologies.Classism vs equal opportunity and violence vs peaceful are different subjects..: still Hinduism is not like Islam
I think the religion itself and the ideas it upholds are in essence peaceful, I think the issue lies in human interpretation and social standards.
I don't know a lot about it, but; when you normally ask if a religion or something is peaceful, it usually isn't. There's probably a lot of grey areas.
There’s always good and bad to religions, I’m a Christian and I admit that. I think depends if you take it to an extreme
Hinduism is, but like many other religions. Some (small portion) of its followers might not actually follow what it teaches and harm others.
It really depends on how the people r not the religion and the caste system is old nowdays it becomes independent for all
Not in my opinion. I don't even think it's a religion in the first place.
The highest number of fables and myths come from this particular "Religion"
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