Posted: Jun 13, 2015 10:49 am
r.c wrote:...Sure the Hindus consider the Vedas and Bhagwad Gita to be a great source of knowledge and morality but hardly anyone bothers to read them. That is what annoys me the most. They keep professing that they are great books, but when I try to dig further and ask them what exactly is it that it that they find so appealing, I find that they haven't even read them. There is a certain sense of irrational cultural pride associated with it. The actual information that these books contain takes a back seat.
That is soo...ooo...oo true. Over several years, I have found that I am the only person who has read even a little bit of the stuff that we call "Hindu", and the rest of the people in my circles are blissfully ignorant. I have had several bad run-ins, where I had to correct them about facts, but it "hurt their pride". I was called a liar because I stated a fact which showed Hindus and their traditions in negative light. It is mostly pride without knowledge or reason.