Generally I don't much bother about religion. I mean I don't practice any religion. Recently I saw a news and saw Dear Sourav Halder Da's question "It is actually what India and Hinduism all about... But the real question is.... Will a mosque allow the Hindus to do a puja in its premises?" draw my attention and I have an opinion about this.
The main advantage with Hinduism is it always welcomes the new idea and doesn't matter how contrasting is the new idea it surprisingly assimilate the new idea inside it. Imagine where the main theme of Veda is - "GOD have no Image" (Na taswa pratima asti). Hinduism accepted 33 crore GODs. The main strength of hinduism is its freedom. Do what ever you want. The extreme example is Jainism and Buddhism. They are basically atheist religion (Believe it or not these two religion dont believe in GOD) and started as anti Hindu religion. Today many Jain and Buddhist dont know that they are not hindu. This is the beauty of Hinduism. Assimilate everything. Immense tolerance. Swami Vivekananda truly said in Chicago "We not only believe in universal tolerance but we accept all religions as true." We believe in so many gods that adding just extra GOD don't literally add anything new doesn't matter even the name of the GOD is "Allah". Did you notice in Hinduism we have thousands of classes and sects and everyone respect everyone. The worshiper of Shiva easily goes to the temple of Ram. And the worshiper of Kali heartily welcome the worshiper of Ganesh.
On the other hand the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) act really in a strange manner. They all claim and share the same history and theory of origin but always fight with each other. The rigidity is the signature of these religions. Not only they fight with each other, they even fight with the different classes inside the religion. A Shia always fight with Sunni, A catholic never see the face of protestant !!!
All religions are philosophy came from some particular human mind's thought and personal feeling. Like all philosophy they are to some extend true and to some extend false.Nothing is absolute true. So fighting among each other is the most foolish act I feel. I don't like and strongly disagree of many aspect of Hinduism but the world really needs the tolerance of Hinduism to get world peace.
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