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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although I am often amazed how little some folks who are Hindu know about other religions. Sounds like a start of a joke but a Catholic, Jew and Hindu at lunch was discussing religion. I threw out well Catholics believe Jesus is God and Jews believe he is a nice Jewish Boy who went into his fathers business. Both believe he existed but Jews do not believe he was messiah.

The Hindu was kinda shocked that Jews and Catholics both believe Jesus was a man who walked earth. Their Gods are more mythical not just walking among us.

But the part I found interesting the Hindu was born in New Jersey. Heck a cheesy Xmas cartoon you can see Jesus born as a person. [/quote]

I know it's hard for you to try to understand another person's worldview, even though it's been pretty well explained in this thread.  Hinduism is an inclusive religion and it's foundation is not based on a founder or singular person.  It does not rely on one specific historical event to prove itself.

For someone that grows up learning that different religions are paths to a higher plane, it can be shocking for them to listen to an actual debate about one particular religious figure and the exclusivity surrounding them.

Yes, even someone born in NJ. Just as you learn that Jesus is the one and only Truth and believe it with all your soul, a Hindu learns to not judge another's religion and focus inward on our own path. So debating who's real and who's right is just not the goal.

As stated somewhere else in this thread, Hindus, by and large, do not study other religions as we are quite content with our own.  We don't need to validate ourselves by trying to find what's wrong with other religions. So a cartoon of Jesus being born a person is nbd. To us, what should it matter if he was real or not, did you learn something good from his stories?  Yes-great, live your life practicing that good.

See, we have and have had, multiple enlightened, God-like people born and walk the earth and teach us.  From over 5,000 years ago up to present day.  And for us, every single soul on earth has God within them. We are all part of One supreme higher power.  So this reliance and debate (and wars and fighting) about one person can be incredibly baffling.

It's completely different from your worldview.  It does not fit within the narrow, exclusive, Abrahamic paradigm at all. He was shocked by you both and you were shocked by him.

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What are you taking about? I only am taking a guy who grew up in a heavy Catholic and Jewish area did not know Catholics and Jews believe Jesus actually walked the earth. Actually most people believe that even atheists and sun worshippers. Heck in New Jersey Jesus is on cross in the manager front lawns.  Heck he worked at a company 95 percent Catholic and Jewish. [/quote]

So? I don't go around asking my neighbors or colleagues for details about what they believe. If I wanted to know the basic tenets of Mormanism or whatever I'd look it up. Sounds like he wasn't interested, got along fine with everyone and didn't need to know the nitty-gritty of their belief systems.

Anyway, just because you are surrounded by something doesn't mean you absorb it, if you don't participate. My husband grew up in a heavily Jewish and Catholic area. He's Jewish and had all Jewish friends, even though there were plenty of Catholics around. He doesn't know anything about Catholicism. Like nada. Super uncomfortable inside a church, any church. I am also Jewish but I attended a Christian school. So I know a fair bit about basic Christian beliefs, but a lot of that comes from the religion classes that were part of the curriculum. Without those, I might not have absorbed that much. I may know the religious stuff but not the cultural, for example, because I've never experienced it. A Christian friend was recently talking about how everyone gives pajamas at "the holidays" and I had never heard of this apparently well-known phenomenon. I only learned recently, as a late-30s adult, that one waters a live Christmas tree. Etc.[/quote]

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