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bahamas

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I was told that alot of indians worship cows in indian is this true?
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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The short answer is: yes. Hinduism is not theistic but rather pantheistic.

A little more explanation would be that in Hindu theology, Brahma initiated creation by creating the four Kumāras. However, they refused his order to procreate and instead devoted themselves to Brahma and celibacy. So Brahma then proceeded to create from his mind ten sons to be the fathers of the human race. But since these ten sons were born out of his mind rather than body and could not procreate they are called Mānas Putras or mind-son spirits. So then Brahmā had nine sons and one daughter born from various parts of his body which bore all living things into a cycle of rebirth and death vying for caste, according to karmamarga (e.g. Karma [sacrifice]) within Brahma's emanations. It is within caste that Braham's emanations impart the divine. In your example, cows are higher in case than insects so get more attention from Hindus who aren't actually worshiping the cow themselves but rather the greater measure of the divine in them than say insects have received.

This actually gets very deep and one could spend a few decades going over all the nuances of the false worldview we call Hinduism.
 
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bahamas

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so when we kill a cow to eat we or killing and eatin a indian god?
 
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Spokenpassage

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Yea they i do believe worship the calf or cow or both also. They believe in reincarnation, the animal could have been the past life of a friend, family member, or love one. That and they worship it for some reason im not to familiar with it, i learned only a little bit of it
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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No. Hinduism is a false view of the world. When you kill and eat a cow, you are not killing a part of God and eating him like Hinduism teaches. Rather, you are merely killing something God created and told you that you could eat (assuming it's your cow and you didn't steal it) which Christianity correctly teaches. If you have a problem with this, you could always milk the cow and drink the milk... lolol.

so when we kill a cow to eat we or killing and eatin a indian god?
 
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Charlamane

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Buddhism is 2440 years old. It existed (obviously) before Christ. These guys did the best they could with what they knew. Do we do that? These people were never even introduced to the knowledge of Christ. It's kind of absurd to bash them for teaching a false religion when they were never exposed to a true one. At least they didn't sacrifice their babies on burning pires to their gods.
 
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Spokenpassage

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Buddhism is 2440 years old. It existed (obviously) before Christ. These guys did the best they could with what they knew. Do we do that? These people were never even introduced to the knowledge of Christ. It's kind of absurd to bash them for teaching a false religion when they were never exposed to a true one. At least they didn't sacrifice their babies on burning pires to their gods.
i like your post makes sense, we are talking about hunduism not buddhism. Buddhism dont have a deity its more of philosophy
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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You've got the wrong religion. This thread is about Hinduism. The Buddhist thread is here: http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/57940-buddhism-asian-doctrine.html#post914699

Both animal and human sacrifice were a part of Hinduism. For the warrior Aryans of ancient India, sacrifices (yajnas) based on fire were given to the gods to gain divine favour for wealth and power and to help maintain the cosmic balance against 'rita' - demons who sought to destroy the perfect balance. They believed that giving sacrifices of animals and humans to the gods would please the gods and there might therefore, be an increase in cattle, food, prosperity and victory in war.

Read the Rig veda, the most ancient hindu text, and note the procedure for human sacrifice in Purusha Sukta. Now that's mainstream Hinduism. Read the book 'On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India' by Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja). Of course, there were also bloody cults like Kali that took human sacrifice to a far greater level.


Buddhism is 2440 years old. It existed (obviously) before Christ. These guys did the best they could with what they knew. Do we do that? These people were never even introduced to the knowledge of Christ. It's kind of absurd to bash them for teaching a false religion when they were never exposed to a true one. At least they didn't sacrifice their babies on burning pires to their gods.