| I am not asking you to reply. What I have done is said this or that about Hinduism hoping to make people turn away from it and onto my path which is Paganism, or a variant of it. The way I have done this is rather efficeint and I have focused on reincarnation and omnipotence and prayer as the basis for my argument, though I did not say anything about omnipotence. Omnipotence does not feature is Hinduism because there are many gods, so that doesn't matter that much to this case. As I said reincarnation doesn't make sense, logically as I claimed, and prayer and scriptures don't either, as God can only speak through nature. I do not believe the gods will speak through any other medium, especially invading a persons mind and planting thoughts into theirs. This has to do with perception, a person cannot think what they cannot percieve, as you might find in a study of consciousness, so, people need to percieve what they think. No one can think something without an origin, and to say that the origin is simply thrust into their mind telepathically by a being with no vocal chords, is a fallacy. And then why are the gods not speaking now to people? They are! It is just people are not writing it down anymore, so it is no longer scripture and no longer studied.
I do not want to get into your scriptures, but I would like to take an example that is rather common. Let's say a god asks a man to go somewhere. In the old days they would write that so and so was asked to go somewhere far away. How do they know it was God? How do people today know when they have an urge to go somewhere they are not being told so by a god? How can you ascribe a voice, which is personal, to a being that is impersonal and has no definition? I know you have a god of wealth, so how does a wealth god sound? To say that they sound as any mortal would have sounded is to say they have chosen to sound that way, which means they have chosen one person to represent them. I don't think any god would choose a mortal over another, this is unethical and shows that they would welcome one over another into their kingdom, don't you agree? So how do you write scriptures about what gods have decreed? |