History of Hinduism Puns

If anyone's curious about me, I'm a Hindu who grew up in the US and along the process of researching information when crafting my ebook, I was disturbed to find the general apathy towards massacres of Hindus happening around India's borders while the Modi government is somehow portrayed as fascist while the Indian National Congress party was pushing for Sharia Courts in India. As such, I decided to broach topics covering Pakistan's massacres and rape conversions (forcible rape of non-Muslim women to convert them to Islam) of Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians suffering in Pakistan. I've found the same trend of such conversions happening in Bangladesh and Afghanistan, it sickens me how little coverage this horrifying topic gets. I was also disturbed to find the general ignorance or outright genocide denial of what happened to Hindus under Islamic rule with a whopping death toll of 80 million. Some of you may object to citing Christians, but under Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh they suffer too and quite honestly, there needs to be a baseline of human compassion because nothing justifies raping women to forcibly convert them to a religion. Unfortunately, that's been the norm of Islamic history and I cover that topic thoroughly in Part 2 of my ebook along with how the Islamic religion operates and why Free Speech is probably the only way to truly end the threat of Islamization and Christianization.

For more details, I applied several cognitive/social psychology books such as Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, Robert A. Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice, Alexa Ispas's Social Identity Perspective, and many others to how religious faiths cause certain behaviors and internalized beliefs. Part 1 is an examination of religious faith in general in the generic sense pertaining to beliefs about luck and a moral order. I cover Islam and Christianity's worship of death in Chapter 3 and their misogyny in Chapter 5, including why their justifications for male genital mutilation (male circumcision) has no scientific basis in fact. Moreover, I cover FGM (female genital mutilation) generally in Chapter 5 and then more thoroughly in Islam's specific chapter within Part 2 since there is a theological mandate in the Shafi'i school of Islam for FGM. This is just scratching the surface to give you a general idea.

Part 2 is very

EDIT: "History of Hinduism? Suggestion of texts, lectures, etc?" There's no shortage of books about Vedic & Hindu texts, but I'm wondering about the history of how Hinduism has been formed into what it is today. This is the only material I've found (in english), but can anyone else tell me what other material there is about particular periods in the arc of Hinduism's history? https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-world-religions-hinduism.html

For example, Christians today will spread (most famously) hatred of gays. But most will accept it in western countries but just condemn the act as sinful and God will punish them for their sins.

What are your thoughts and experiences coming from Islam?

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Nothing is absolute in Hinduism. You can bring a new practice of conversion, if you want to.

That's also another reason why Hinduism survived. When temples were destroyed by Islamic invaders, Bhakti movement rose which placed less importance to visiting temples.

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I hope such a question isn't against the subreddit rules. I didn't see anything against it. I'm looking for a book which is authoritative and presents what is the consensus among historians. It would also be great if its includes evidences and such, but I'd rather if its not too scholarly. I'm very interested in the history of Hinduism, and would like to learn more!

Thanks

Yahan zyada achhe suggestion milenge randia se i guess.

Hey, I had the idea for some time to write about a book that I really liked, Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar by Ken Coates and I wanted to write about the main topic in the book, which is philosophies related to antinatalism throughout our history. I'll write a different post for each subject (for now Hinduism, Buddhism and Schopenhauer at least).
I hope you will find it interesting. I'm not a native English speaker, mistakes and grammar errors will happen. A lot. I'm sorry. If you want to correct my text, please do.

Part 2 up: np.reddit.com/r/antinatalism/comments/9bmjyx/antinatalism_in_human_history_part_2_buddhism/

#Classical Hinduism (Brahmanism)

Hinduism is a very old religion (around 4000 years old) shaped around texts called Vedas which were revealed to Indians sages then passed down to Brahmans (a high Indian caste) orally, then written down later.
It sets itself apart as unlike Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, it doesn't have a unique founder (like Jesus or Buddha). It also believe that the world always existed and will always exist with no supreme deity as creator:
>The world is an eternal, meaningless wheel of recurrent births and deaths steadily rolling on through all eternity

The very first writings of the Vedas had a very positive outlook on life, filled with optimism. But quickly, following writings (called Upanishads written around 1500 B.C.) pondering on life took a serious pessimistic turn. Life wasn't something to celebrate but something to be liberated from. The never-ending life cycle (therefore never-ending death cycle) in a such imperfect world was not in any case an enjoyable experience.
The human body:
>is fair in appearance only; in truth it is no more than a conglomerate of foul-smelling impurities

The Soul:
>is fouler still. In it are desire, anger, covetousness, delusion, dear, depression, envy

Human beings are subject to:
>hunger, thirst, old age, death, disease and sorrow

For them, pain, fear, anxiety and death are our constant companions in our interminable journey through the cycles of life and death.
The never ending quest of human for pleasures, possessions and power that never last (as it always end with death) are also a net negative.

So the main goal of the Upanishads is to attain Moksha, or liberation of the Self.

The cycle of reincarnation is called Sa

Hey, so I was a Muslim until about the age of 16; from then on I became atheist to agnostic to irreligious/unaffiliated, basically just a lot of confusion. I was then introduced to the idea of spirituality in Hinduism and I watched a lot of YouTube videos about being spiritual. I also watched a lot of videos from Sadhguru (he’s a very famous yogi mystic) and I really liked his ideas. More and more research on Hinduism and I said to myself “this is what I’ve been looking for”.

I have fallen in love with Hinduism’s freedom of belief and ability to question everything without consequence. Much better than blind faith which is a core element of the Islamic religion. I’m an American but my parents are from Pakistan and my Grandma and Grandpa were from Lucknow and Delhi (cities in India) respectively, so I’m just going back to my Indian roots which are rightfully mine and have always been to begin with.

Just wondering, is anything else here a follower of Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism’s native name)? It seems like we have a majority atheist population here, with a significant Christian minority, not much people out of the Abrahamic triangle.