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To: arun gera who wrote (68348)	9/3/2005 10:58:50 AM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Arun Re: "dogma" I don't believe you must have a pope or a central authority for a religion to have a dogma and the dictionary definition you post seems to me to be the very description of the Hindu religion. Hindus may lack a "Pope" but every village has "teachers" and village elders who instruct the young in the "dogma" of the religion. My Brahmin roomy told me of such a man who had influenced his life. Hindus also have a vast written literature, much of it handed down from antiquity. But they also have modern writings, even back in the 1960's my roomy got religious publications in the mail from India. And the Hindu religion surely has a "corpus of doctrines" as rigid as any. A practicing Hindu will not eat meat or even kill an insect. My Websters also lists under the definition of "dogmatic" the accepting of an idea on faith and without proof. A Hindu is expected to believe in reincarnation and on faith and without proof. Seems to me that Hinduism is very "dogmatic" and I don't mean that in any critical way. It SHOUlD be dogmatic or otherwise it would loose its very essence. American Christianity is structured in a way similar to Hinduism. We have thousands of small sects and cults and the only real connection between them is the Bible, but some of them even have their own version of the Bible that they have produced to suit their particular "dogma". Of course we also have the major Christian religions, each with its own particular "dogma". Dogma is not a bad thing. Slagle