Arguments against hinduism

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Title says it all, any good arguments opposing it?
 
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Hinduism is a religious tradition that has neither a founder, nor a central authority, nor a common creed, nor a dogmatic teaching which has to be accepted by every Hindu believer. Therefore it lacks structure and logic.
 
Yeah, ive been trying to find what aquains would call negative evidence for hinduism, but theres really only 2 dogmas held by every hindu (dharma and reincarnation). Due to that the only way to convert someone is to show Christianity has better evidence for its claims (since everything is based on faith and not logic in hinduism) and of course have them pray
 
Not metaphysically impossible but the hindu gods have always seemed “silly” to me
 
They have the sort of absurdity found in most pagan traditions. For example, there was a goddess of door hinges in Rome by the name of Cardea.

Given the Lord’s propensity for assigning roles to His creatures, I suspect there are angels that have strangely utilitarian roles, like the Angel of weak nuclear forces or gravity. But it doesn’t mean they’re worthy of worship.
 
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Well the thing is you can be hindu and just accept and deny any indvidual god you want
 
Fatima-Crusader said:
Title says it all, any good arguments opposing it?
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It? Vidyaranya described sixteen systems of thought from India and not all are theistic:
  • Cārvāka (materialism)
  • Buddhism
  • Arhata or Jaina
  • Purna-Prajna
  • Nakulisa-Pasupata
  • Saivaism
  • Pratyabhijña
  • Raseśvara
  • Vaiseshika or Aulukya
  • Akshapada or Nyaya
  • Jaimini
  • Paniniya
  • Sankhya
  • Patanjala Yoga
  • Vedanta (dualism, qualified non-dualism, difference and non-difference, etc.)
  • Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism)
 
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We all listen to those who predict things which later come to pass. We express great interest in such things and devote much time and effort to them. From the spiritual to the financial, we listen when those who predict are correct. By the same token, we pay little or no attention to those whose predictions are false, or never come to pass.

Having said that, one test of the truth of a matter is if it is predicted and comes true. Hinduism was not prophesied. It did not appear in fulfillment of any prophecy. It is not a religion that was revealed by God to man.

Only One belief system did that. Only one fulfilled the most amazing and unbelievable prophecy in human history: defeating the universal scourge of death by dying and rising again.

Only One.

Credit to Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen for this line of thinking.
 
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You seem to know alot about hinduism, can you explain what they mean by one god many paths?
 
Hindus believe in an ultimate divinity called Brahma, and I believe some of them consider all the gods to be merely faces of this One God. Perhaps what they mean by this is that no matter which god you outwardly worship, you will ultimately be giving adulation and praise to the same Divinity?

As noted by another poster, Hinduism has no concrete theology and no single founder and Hindu sects have developed wildly over the centuries.

If you’re looking to debunk Hinduism, just read their stories. Look up the Mahabharata- it reads like a fairy tale.
 
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Similar to patron saints. There are some rather unusual ones. Everyone seeks a protector.
 
What does a Hindu have faith in? The surreality of the Hindu divinities relates to a pattern in dharmic philosophies describing the world as illusory, a kind of dream in the mind of God (Brahman), and enlightenment is realizing the impermanent transience of all things. Reincarnation is attached to a cycle of rebirth perpetuated by karma, and ending this cycle is the ultimate aim — moksha, release from the burden of existence. To live is to desire is to suffer. The yogi wants out of self-consciousness, to cease to be. It seems to me that nihilism would be simpler, and faith is just more attachment that creates desire that creates suffering.

The difficulty with evangelizing cultures that have embraced this despondent view of individual existence is that eternal life is not good news; it seems like bad news. The crux (literally) is to correct this view to see that salvation is breaking out of the cycle of suffering not by ultimate annihilation (or assimilation) of the self, but abnegation of the self with its ultimate and infinite fulfilment. To begin, one must see material reality as fundamentally good, and not evil, which was one of the most common issues in ancient pagan cultures, which gnosticism tried to continue in Christianity (and hints of it are in Protestantism in the “total depravity” doctrine).
 
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How would we respond to the claim that are spirtual life and experinces are just Brahma acting thru a God that doesnt exist (Jesus)?, since they think God is worshipped thru every conception of a god
 
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Fatima-Crusader said:
How would we respond to the claim that are spirtual life and experinces are just Brahma acting thru a God that doesnt exist (Jesus)?, since they think God is worshipped thru every conception of a god
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Ask them how they know this to be true.
 
Well it would be circular logic, we would go back and back forever
 
From what I know of Hindus, they accept Jesus as a God, just not THE God. They would accept Satan as a God if need be, they do worship incarnations of evil in goddesses of death and destruction like Kali. My advice? Don’t argue with them.Rather, introduce them to Our Lord Jesus Christ, and once they start worshiping Him, let Him do his job and convert them. Hinduism’s worldview is so different from the worldview of Abrahamic religions that discussion without extensive explanation of both is laughable and tiresome.
 
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