10-23-2006, 12:20 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Also <b>we need to</b> completely cut off people who leave the community, if they made a choice then we can also make a choice not to associate with them anymore, look at that Bobby Jindal, so many moronic Hindus probably supported him, we would have been better off supporting some gora since converts tend to be more nuts about Christ.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I agree. But the community is not an abstract thing. It is <b>us, the Hindu gRuhastAs</b>, the householders. We are the vanguard of Hinduism - our religion depends upon us to make the right choices. We cannot "outsource" the practices of our religion to temples, to mathas or to sannyAsis. We cannot insist that they be forbidden from temples and mathas, while "broad-mindedly" welcoming them into our homes and families.
So, it falls upon us to secure our families, our homes and our children from the influence of these people. Also, there is no logical or sensible way to cut off converts, while keeping personal friends among ordinary practitioners of other religions. We will have to keep all these people out of our lives: both those who are traditionally Christian and Muslim, and those who converted to these nonsensical monotheisms. We should explicitly make it clear to our families that associating with such people is unacceptable and harmful in the long term. We should warn our families to beware of them, just as we warn them to beware of drugs, smoking or alcohol.
Others may call it prejudice, narrow-mindedness, bigotry or discrimination. We should simply learn to live with such calumny. Or we will end up learning to "whole-heartedly accept change", in the words of Ravish.
I agree. But the community is not an abstract thing. It is <b>us, the Hindu gRuhastAs</b>, the householders. We are the vanguard of Hinduism - our religion depends upon us to make the right choices. We cannot "outsource" the practices of our religion to temples, to mathas or to sannyAsis. We cannot insist that they be forbidden from temples and mathas, while "broad-mindedly" welcoming them into our homes and families.
So, it falls upon us to secure our families, our homes and our children from the influence of these people. Also, there is no logical or sensible way to cut off converts, while keeping personal friends among ordinary practitioners of other religions. We will have to keep all these people out of our lives: both those who are traditionally Christian and Muslim, and those who converted to these nonsensical monotheisms. We should explicitly make it clear to our families that associating with such people is unacceptable and harmful in the long term. We should warn our families to beware of them, just as we warn them to beware of drugs, smoking or alcohol.
Others may call it prejudice, narrow-mindedness, bigotry or discrimination. We should simply learn to live with such calumny. Or we will end up learning to "whole-heartedly accept change", in the words of Ravish.