pervasive colonial co-option of hindu terms and concepts

 
@afi[...]
21 hours ago
Hello csk, please relay this to the guest.
1. Your position that Hinduism is not a religion will backfire as it has has backfired in several places and taken advantage of by dais and evengelecals. In Indonesia xtian missionary used this to make half convert in the 1st generation and full convert in the following generation.

So Hinduism (or Hindutva) has to be called a religion with a definite future vision of the world in terms of food habits, life rituals, economics and technology.

2. Yes it is definitely needed to have a collective identity as i believe you did not properly answer csk's last question because you need an ingroup and outgoing not that I'm saying to hate the outgroup but the distinction is needed heck even in nature there is boundary.

It is needed to protect our unique identity amd pass it down to our children and them to theirs...... This also gives them a sence of identity in the world and will not make them identity less beings

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@darkprince2490
3 minutes ago (edited)
Just yesterday I saw a believer claim that "izl#% is a way of life". And the day before that i saw some punk "hindu atheist" (oxymoron) confidently claim "his science" is deterministic. Even the old accusation about hinduism being "fatalistic" has been taken from us and turned into a positive for them. All done using specious rhetoric turned against us. They lie and shapeshift and they will not relent.
We need to make a sharp distinction between the heathen and the monotheist/atheist. Just state that we follow dharma. Only on official forms use religion as hindu. By now, even kids understand the difference between the two.
If we use "religion", then they will burden us with the crimes of monotheistic religion over the past 2000 years - that either we brought those crimes upon ourselves or we were the actual 'guilty' ones.
How long will we run and how long will we try to be like them.
They are even now stating that hinduism is colonial and fascistic in nature even though both colonialism and fascism come directly from monotheism. Passing on their crimes to us. And we eagerly comply as if it is some colonial era medal pinned to our chests.We need decolonization. there is no other way.
In older times, we followed dharma. They could lie all they wanted it did not matter to us or our conduct in the world. Now we follow "indology" (those same lies) to "learn about ourselves". And every two-bit lying demagogic pseudointellect gets to push us around.