What are the views of christians, muslims, jews on other religons?

Question

I have many christian, muslim, jewish friends. I know that they all stauchly support that there was an actual jesus who died for the sins of mankind, and that there was an actual abraham, and there was indeed a Mohammed who recieved revelations from the angel Gabriel. But they certainly cannot support Hinduism as a valid religion. Why not? What is so great about christ that the hindu gods of rama and krishna did not preach? Why is it so hard for them to believe in our myths and legends when in certain areas their stories can seem just as outrageous? Do they really believe that everyone is bound to go to hell? What is their obsession with having to be correct about everything?

Answer 1

The religions you have mentioned are monotheistic religions. In practice, these have become monopolistic religion, all of these claim to monopolize the God. These are highly organized religions. Any organization creates the positions of power, which in turn attract ambitious ones who use the organization for their agenda.

Given the level of intelligence and social development stage at the time when these were propounded, these religions could reach only simplistic view for most of the things, which also makes them to see a number of things in black and white. As per this perspective, one can only be dead right or be dead wrong. There is no room for pluralism or a position like 'little right but little wrong also' OR 'we both may be right in our own perspective'. Due to over simplification, these religions were not able to handle the fine nuances of complicated matters of life. The concept of 'Bramha' as envisioned in Indian philosophy is beyond the mechanics of these religions. A number of scholars from these religion have made conscious efforts to understand this philosophy and they really excelled, however, the majority preferred to live in the 'state of denial' in respect of highly developed Indian philosophy, using deterioration like casteism as a stick to beat Hindus and India with, conveniently forgetting that different kind of class based division exists in almost all societies. This said, casteism is a curse of India, the silver lining is, it is diluting automatically with the economic development taking place.

Christianity and Islam are very much conquest oriented, where making whole mankind to fall in line with their belief, has been laid down as their duty. They sincerely believe that by converting others into their belief is going to help those others.

With these basic attitudes of (i) there is only one god, (ii) i.e. my god, (iii) his is the only truth, (iv) by extension, all other are wrong, (v) god has assigned me the duty to bring the wrong persons to right path (vi) if the wrong person does not come to right path, then ??????, followers of these religions find it difficult to accept that this is a big world and there is enough room for all kind of persons in this world.

One of the issues of Hinduism has been that it is very accommodating faith and it does not attack others' belief with the same ferocity, which make others totally free to launch relentless attacks. Followers of Hinduism (generally) have not developed that kind of logical explanations, which can address the 'one God, one Book and one earth' perspective of these religions.

Answer 2

I agree with you. I was raised a christian, but I believe that Christians are judgmental and have an attitude like they're better than others; but they're the first to talk about not being judgmental and about being humble. They are just hypocrites. I really didn't have much interactions with Jews, but based on the interactions that I did have with them, all I can say is that they don't bother any other group, they have a strong community and they are more on the defensive than the offensive. I grew up around Hindu's, in fact I was the only christian in the area, and to tell you the truth, I celebrated Diwali with the Hindus, and Ed ur fitur with the muslims. I just think that we all just need to respect other's beliefs and learn from each other. We will live fuller lives.

Answer 3

The tendency to seem flighty. To change without following through. I find this not only within myself sometimes, but also within many people I meet in the community. Every religion has good and bad aspects. I think Christians probably stick with one idea too long, to the point where if you find that to be demonstrably wrong, you keep doing it anyway out of a sense of loyalty. (Look at Bush, or the whole Free-Trade idea) We pagans tend to be the opposite, and fly toward the next idea with the wind. The Goddess cult survived European Christiandom... ok... It didn't it's a revival.... ok... Nothing survived at all, and it's all just inspired by Thelema, Spiritualism, and Theosophy... ok... There are some aspects that survived as Mesopaganism, but it was different than paleopaganism, and the new neopaganism... ok...

Answer 4

Let me first clarify the Hadith one of our brother mentioned.

Anas said, "Some people of 'Ukl or 'Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in 'Al-Harra' and when they asked for water, no water was given to them." Abu Qilaba said, "Those people committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah and His Apostle ."

Also the problem with his quotes is that he does not take into account the time and situation in which the Ayah's were revealed and the Hadiths to what question the prophet responded. Qur`an is not just for reading word to word but for a mind that wants to understand it in totality. Many people do the same with other religions and confuse people and make them wonder how can this be? The problem thus arise because of the lack of time people can spent researching due to bread winning labor so they just think that this can be correct and so just blindly believe in it.

As for the question:

Hinduism as accepting as a religion. I have no problem in accepting it as a religion but the problem is the concept of God in Hinduism is very vague. It is because of the fact that Hinduism is based on the Bhagwad Gita, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata where actually it should be based on the Vedas and the Brahma Sutra (If I remember the name of the books properly). If we closely take a look at these books there is no multiple God's concept, there is ultimately one God. The famous verse in the Brahma Sutra which says:

"Ekam Brahm, dvitiya naste neh na naste kinchan"

meaning

"There is only one God, not the second; not at all, not at all, not in the least bit."

(I can write this because I like the way Sanskrit sounds and I had written it in my notes when I read somewhere I don't remember)

I can say maybe King Ram was a prophet of God but I cannot say that I believe that he was the prophet of God. I can say that Gautama Buddha can be a prophet of God but I can't believe in it. I can also say maybe the Veda's and the Brahma Sutra's are the word of God but I cannot believe in it because all of the above are not mentioned in the Qur`an.

If Hinduism was based on the Vedas and the Brahma Sutra's then we may have something in common. And the things mentioned in it are similar to all the other religions that had prophets and books.

Answer 5

you know that jews all staunchly support that there was an actual jesus who died for the sins of mankind? um, oooookay....

as for jewish views on other religions, there is a teaching:

"if someone says there is torah among the nations, do not believe him. but if he says there is wisdom among the nations, believe him."

in other words, the opinion is that their religion is wrong, but that does not mean they aren't wise and good people. the talmud gives seven laws of morality all that non-jews should live by to be considered righteous people in the eyes of G-d.

as for hinduism, obviously it is a valid religion, but the problem some jews would have with it is the practice of creating images of the divine to use for worship. judaism as a rule dislikes this practice and considers it to be degrading to both people and G-d. to people because they are kneeling before a man-made object, and to G-d because it lowers his status to creation rather than creator.

Answer 6

Actually, the term 'infidels' refers only to pagans. Historically in Islamic ruled areas, Christians and Jews were allowed to live peacefully and worship freely as long as they paid their taxes and follow the law of the land.

Pagans (infidels) were given the opportunity to convert to Islam and if they refused, were executed.

Answer 7

Judge the following non-contextual q’uran for yourself.

ISLAMIC TERROR – (TRUE OR FALSE?).

Qur’an 8:60 “Infidels (non-muslims) should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them.”
Bukhari:V4B52N260 “The Prophet said, ‘If a Muslim discards his religion, kill him!’”
Qur’an 5:51 “Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends.”
Bukhari [4:52:177]: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him!"

Bukhari, V1B4N234: "A group of people from the Oreyneh and Oqayelh tribes came to the prophet to embrace Islam, the prophet advised them to drink the urine of the camels. Later on when they killed the prophet's shepherd, the prophet seized them, gouged out their eyes, cut their hands and legs, and left them thirsty in the desert to die."

When a Muslim declares that Islam is a religion of peace, he/she is either ignorant of the Koran (Qur'an), or is deceitfully thinking of this "peace", as it extends only to those within the Muslim Community. The deceit is that they will not tell you exactly what they mean. According to the Qur'an: "Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah. (Yet muhammad himself could not be trusted as we shall see in the following). Those who follow him are merciful to one another, but ruthless to unbelievers" Sura 48:29. "Kill the Mushrikun (unbelievers) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush..." Sura 9:5. Also see Sura 9:29

Answer 8

Some hate them and some fear them and some respect them and some love them.
Real Christians( and Jews) love and examine thoroughly what negative things others say about other religions and people before they decide and long before they "pronounce" on such subjects in condenation..

Answer 9

I don't know...some never seem to practice what they preach. Hindus at least don't kill each other or those who don't believe what they do.

Answer 10

Religion is cool