Sunday, December 5, 2010

The World and Religion

Its been a long time I was thinking about the various religions in this world. Most of the religions talk of how great their religion is and how bad other religions are. There are however few religions in the world which I know of which do not view other religions are bad or degraded.

The main such religion is Hinduism. Then there is Buddhism. I consider Buddhism to be an offshoot of Hinduism mainly because in Hinduism, Gautama Buddha is considered as one of the 10 main Avatars of Lord Vishnu. Something tells me that there are more such religions in the world and I am trying to search for more.

On the other hand, the two other largest religions in the World are not so accommodative to other religions.

I tried to understand why or why not. What I feel is that the main reason why these religions are not so accommodative is mainly due to fact that they have not fully understood the texts written in their Holy Books. I feel they have misunderstood he texts and it continues to be degraded further as we build upon those misunderstood texts. This can be confirmed by the deeds of early Muslim and Christian rulers.

We need to find out how to no get the religion back to how the founders had envisioned and this is going to be a very difficult task.

In the coming months, I will try to publish the various myths related to the various religions and how they shaped history and religion as many know it today.