For me - Yes.
It has spoilt me with freedom of choices it gave to me.
Freedom to accept, question, reject any thing partially or completely , believe it or reject it. Even Vedas.
Freedom to choose the form , I want to worship God, how I worship and when I worship. Nature worship, sun worship, fire worship, mother goddess, statues or Murti puja or Puja with abstract designs as in a Chauk, yagya or Ramayana reciting.....
I can turn Shiva worshipper to Vishnu Arya Samaji to Sanatani from morning to evening and nobody will bother me.
A Hindu is at ease in all religious places. be it a Church or Gurudwara. I even attended Bahai temple and My faith does not threaten me with dire consequences for it. Concept of god in Hinduism is not of a jealous patriarchial father who gets angry for getting along with other faiths.Hinduism emphasizes Experience of Reality and Truth rather than belief.
It does not believe in concepts of proselytization, heresy hunting, Holy wars, proclamation of chosen people or a jealous God. Hinduism is an inclusive faith which provides for every form of religious experience and belief; there can by no heresy or Kufr in Hinduism.
Toleration is the homage, which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the Infinite. Toleration is hallmark of Hinduism.
Freedom to follow my own spiritual path and yet remain Hindu.
Freedom to choose between innumerable theories about God or criticize them.
Freedom to turn atheist and yet I am not told I am going to hell.
I doubt If India would have turned secular so readily if it was not a Hindu majority. For Hinduism is itself secular by nature. Even many Hindu do not realise the freedom they have got in comparison to organised religions. They havent seen that culture and take this freedom for granted.
For thousands of years India has been a veritable laboratory of religion: everything imaginable has been tried out, and nothing ever has completely been rejected. Its ethos has evolved down the ages through its the ancient Hindu traditions, customs, philosophy and culture. In spite of many attacks on Hinduism by varied invaders, in spite of rumors of decay and disarray, Hinduism has outlived all announcements of its impending demise.
Its scriptures are too varied and literature vast.
II am so used to this freedom and I love surfing in ocean of knowledge and philosophy.
Not interested in going to a little ponds with one book which tells me getting out means hell.
2006-08-01 06:42:53
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answered by rian30 6
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I'm not a Hindu, I'm an RE teacher, but hey. You could say Hinduism is the best, because you can really follow any religion you want as well as being a Hindu. There are 330 million accessible notions of God, which is nice. And the have a cool set of ideas about reincarnation and the like, which makes a fair amount of sense in some ways.
BUT I would also say that what you should look at in terms of "cool" in a religion is more how the people belonging to it act. In which case you could argue of any religion that it is the best, since in the end the people who know anything about it are just basically nice to other people all the time, which is awesome...obviously.
SO I would say every religion is equally cool, unless there's something specific that you're looking for.
2006-07-28 08:36:52
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answered by RE Teacher 1
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The phrase Hindu is quite significantly misinterpreted and also taken advantage of. Several people today don't know how a phrase begun. Inside of India, several politicians utilize the language Hindu and also Hindu together with communal overtones both to be able to boost or perhaps oppose several ideology or perhaps event. To be able to other planet, Hindu and also Hinduism reference to be able to a couple of folks belonging to distinct faith based model.
2014-01-29 09:27:52
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answered by Pingkon 1
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I am a Hindu.
There is no 'best' religion or 'worst' religion in the world.
The goal of every religion be it Islam or Christianity etc... is to reliase God.
Just as every river empties itself into the sea so does every religion show you the path of realising the Supreme Power in the Universe-God.
Each of the religions is just a path to reach God.This is not something that i am making up.This is the essence of Hindu philosophy.
2006-07-30 00:19:07
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answered by Anonymous
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It's great, wish more understood it instead of rejecting it because it isn't one of the big 3 monotheistic religions. If there was a Hindu temple in my city, I'd probably attend. Everyone needs to read the essential Hindu texts, the Puranas, etc.
2006-07-28 08:34:15
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answered by Anonymous
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best thing about Hinduism is.....
No one can make you a Hindu....you have to make yourself a Hindu.
This is the reason you would not have heard about anyone converting another person to Hinduism
2015-08-14 10:38:22
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answered by Monty 1
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Humanity is best than any other religion. We humans created religions and start differentiating ourselves on the bases of religion, color, language etc,. But what we truely ignoring is every religion and every god exist in this world say the same thing - Be true to yourself make no mistakes and help every one around as per your capabilities concerned irrespective to race, religion.. It is better to be a Human first before following any religion !!
2015-01-19 22:04:44
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answered by OnlineTemple 1
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Sister, HIndu is a very interesting religion I am very open minded about any religion but I seek you look into islam (NO PREASURE YOUR CHOICE) Islam is not about terrorism Islam is also not about murdering people that is the work of Bad Al-Quida who are ''creating'' a '' new'' religion with this violence. The old Islam was very unique religion. Please my sister look into islam if you have time by far it's YOUR CHOICE I'm NOT SAYING HINDU OR THERE PRACTICE IS DUMB no no no no Islam forbids the mockery of other religion it says ''Don't make fun of other religions, but if they start the ''mockery'' first and make fun of ye religion then Shalt punish them!''
2013-10-04 16:12:56
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answered by Anonymous
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In Hinduism you are not forced to follow anything likei have freedom to explore religion and.......question and also find answere.....and it is such a b'ful religion.......and its a liberal and moderate religion too....and I am proud to be a Hindu
2015-06-06 04:05:15
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answered by ? 1
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i'm a hindu.. Never thought about it but its a cool religion for sure.
peace out
2006-07-28 08:32:22
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answered by Anonymous
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