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To: Slagle who wrote (68351)	9/3/2005 9:27:11 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Slagle, You classified a religion or thousands of years of collective thought into the same category as a Christian sect "Seventh Day Adventists". You start with a prejudice and then fill in the details later, although it may differ from facts. This is surprising considering that you must have been a decent engineer using scientific methods, using scientific terms in an objective way. Let us look at the accepted meaning of "dogma" > 1. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church.> There is no Hindu Church that sets this standard. Hindus do not look upon a single book or religious figure or position to guide them. Meet a Hindu family and you will find that members of the same family believe and follow different schools of Hindu thought and deities. 2. An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true. See Synonyms at doctrine. Again the Hindus have various schools of thought that agree and disagree with each other. 3. A principle or belief or a group of them: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present" (Abraham Lincoln).> At best, the last diluted definition may apply to Hinduism , but that could well be applied to "science". >And the Hindu religion surely has a "corpus of doctrines" as rigid as any.> Is the following a "corpus of doctrines"? >A practicing Hindu will not eat meat or even kill an insect.> You are confused. No truth to that. Probably you are thinking of the Jains, another ancient religion from India. Many Hindus are vegetarians by choice. The religion does not force them. Hindu brahmins are most likely to be conscientious vegetarians. >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.> A Hindu is not expected to believe any of this. It is the western fascination with concepts that seems alien to them that fixates them to the same words " casteism, reincarnation, holy cows, karma". > 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.> Just because other religions depend on dogma to survive does not imply that hinduism needs a dogma to survive. The truth is that hinduism is the name given to the collective thought, philosophy, culture, and practices to people of a certain geographical area. Hindus are anybody from that area who has not defined themselves to be otherwise. Buddhism originated in the same pool of thought, and spread to the rest of asia. -Arun