How come every book I read about Christianity from another religious tradition always holds it in the highest regard and commends it as a valid path t...

How come every book I read about Christianity from another religious tradition always holds it in the highest regard and commends it as a valid path to unity with God but every book written by Christians about other religious traditions is always infused with a sense of superiority that only the Christian faith is true?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because Christianity is true.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cause Christianity is a monotheism.
    Read what the Muslims and israelites think of Christianity lol
    When the missionaries came to indians the indians were like "very cool! We'll give you a spot on the wall next to all the others! They're also the only God! "

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Indians as in from India not America

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thomas Merton talks about Christian missionary monks getting MOGGED by Hindu gurus in terms of virtue. The Christians eat animals and refuse to live in poverty and therefore don't get taken seriously by the local Hindus as holy men

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The more I read about Hinduism the more impressed I am with it. The theistic strain of Madhva of course not the monistic strain of Advaita which is for Theosophist cuckolds.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >the hylic strain of course, not the pure metaphysic revelation

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Guenon ball washer

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not surprising to be honest

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair western culture doesn’t support NEETing like that, in india random people will all give monks food whenever they see them and that’s how they survive. In the west you’d just be a homeless bum , at least until recently we never supported those people

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Haven’t you heard of discalced monks and holy fools anon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s not Christianity’s fault that euroshits are inherently materialistic

      Just look at how materialistic Viking pagans were

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Eating animals is based.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Christian missionary monks
      Orthodox Christian monks fast for 40 days without eating anything, many saints lived in caves and were fed by animals. Read a book dipshit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >40 days without eating anything
        Do you realize how outlandish a claim that is?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Do you realize how outlandish a claim that is?
          It's hard but not impossible. 1 lbs of fat is 3,500 calories and you would expend 1,700-1800 calories a day while fasting so do the math. I imagine it'd be terribly hard but it's possible.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          its not at all. there are well documented cases of obese people not eating for an entire year
          40 days is doable by anybody with enough willpower
          hunger strikes in prisons go that long all the time

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Only fundamentalist Christians believe theirs is the only true way. We Progressive Christians believe that all faiths are seeking the divine presence, we do not take the Bible literally, and we embrace and affirm our LGBT+ siblings.
    Seek "God" in your own tradition.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Progressive Christians
      >we do not take the Bible literally
      >we embrace and affirm our LGBT+ siblings

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's obviously bait. He said he's a non believing believer.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I’m not sure if serious or not but most pro-lgbt progressive Christians I’ve met are literally like this. They believe Christianity is not the only truth (and all other religions have some truth to them) and that hell and all that other mean stuff doesn’t exist.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >They believe Christianity is not the only truth
        To be fair that's a common belief among the more educated class of Christians and always has been. The idea that you go to the no-no place if you've been bad is exclusively for the less educated classes who only respond to threats of punishment. No reasonable intelligent person would seriously believe the transcendent creator of all would doom people born within other religious traditions to eternal hell for the crime of not being born in a Christian country, that's ludicrous.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because most Christian books you read are authored by European their view on other religion mirrored the way they view the people who followed it (who were usually non-european). Same thing for non-christian. Japanese for example viewed European as a more civilized culture in the Meiji Restoration and view the Christian path as a respectable path since Europeans were largely Christian

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because all Abrahamic religions are supremacist cults. They don't care about coexistence or even spirituality and god. Religion to them is a means to global conquest and winning brownie points with their god.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Relativism leads to trannies and below replacement level birth rates. God leads to virtue, love and salvation.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    there are many christian missionary in india kinos on youtube
    one priest looking guy literally exorcised a demon named krishna out of some poor moron

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Link? How can you hype that shit up and then not link

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        exorcism one was a locally shared video so I don't think I have it on me right now but link rel is something interesting

        ?t=92

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh. I guess if I were trying to defend hinduism online I would post shit like that too, not like you have any actual leg to stand on. Posting Indians who learned about protestant mega churches in the USA is not representative of Indian Christians.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I don't care about any of that shit you posted
            I just wanted to share some hilarious videos that are circulated here

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Bro show Krishna exorcism pls

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Exorcism videos are wild. many are faked but some are very very real.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I am not denying their authenticity but that one was definitely some sitcom tier presentation

        Bro show Krishna exorcism pls

        its an old video buddy, you can try searching it on youtube but I won't bother with the effort right now

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I already did 🙁

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Use punctuation, you moron.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because Christianity is true.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    From one of Lacans lectures:

    “The Roman religion is the true one. Just try putting all the religions into one bag and then make for example what is called a history of religions. It’s truly horrific. There is only one true religion, and that religion is Christian. The only thing is to know whether this truth will hold on, whether it will end up able to actually drown us in the meanings spews forth. I’m sure it will be able to because it does have resources. Lots of things are ready-made for these purposes. It will interpret the Book of Revelations. A lot of people have already taken a stab at it. It will unearth correlations between everything. This is its function in fact.

    The analyst on the other hand is another thing entirely. He inhabits a kind of coming-of-age moment. For a short period of time, we caught sight of what the intrusion of the Real really is. The analyst remains tied to this point. He is there like a symptom and can only endure as a symptom. But you shall see, the day will come when humanity will be cured of psychoanalysis. This symptom will eventually be repressed by dint of its being drowned in meaning, religious meaning of course.”

    From this, we can infer that Lacan had considered what effects different religions had on their societies and which one stood out as one providing meaning to all things - which religion was the “intrusion of the Real?”

    Paganism did not generally deal in meaning, and pagan societies were typically inspired more by honor and glory and the like than anything more deeply real. Philosophical religions (e.g. Buddhism) had their merits, but were entirely too human and mundane: his work in psycho-analysis had convinced him that the Real lies beyond and behind, and would not be discovered by a mere teacher.

    That leaves the revealed religions: Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, each of which had its prophets claiming outside knowledge. Presumably, Judaism and Zoroastrianism were too narrow, being too deeply rooted in culture. Likewise, Islam seemed to be rooted in a particular culture, and mostly inspired meaning through obedience and conquest in the name of God. I think his sense of the Real went too far for that to work.

    That leaves Christianity: the doctrine that the source of all being, the Real, created from nothing out of love for the something, and was so wounded by creation’s rebellion that he poured the Real into manhood and thereby made the Real accessible to all things on Earth. Put aside the cacophony that is Protestantism and the provincialism of the Orthodoxies, and what is left to embody the “intrusion of the Real?”
    The Catholic Church.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Insecurity

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because those books are written for PR purposes in order to win favor from Christians for purposes of investments or whatever.

    The reality is that Christians AND Muslims are insufferable icchantikas and killing them accrues absolutely no negative karma. Their paths do not even serve as viable upaya, and they spread constant delusions of progress that have invariably led to destruction of world.

    Neither Muhammad nor Jesus were wise, and there is no such thing as a good Christcuck, Mudslime, or J*w. Every single one, including their wretched families, deserves to die a painful and excruciating death.

    Namo Amitabha Buddha.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >insufferable icchantikas
      Damn, like this post. I sincerely hope you don't believe you've become enlightened, your entire post sure shows the complete opposite.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Incredibly based and upayapilled

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Don't reply to yourself weirdo

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Nah I'm not him I just admire his consistently bloodthirsty posts on the same issue no matter the thread

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ah, seemed like something he'd do, considering his ego

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The core beliefs of much of modern Christianity can be crudely summarized, more or less, as, “Christ is the uniquely begotten Son of God and, furthermore, God Himself. Salvation comes by (some combination of/interplay of) faith in Him and good works.” If you want to use fancy Latinate-terms out the ass, it comes from some interplay of orthodoxy (right beliefs) and orthopraxy (right practice).

    The worldview of a universalist panentheistic tradition like Advaita Vedanta, on the other hand, would hold, “Yes, and you and I are the Sons of God, as well. There are as many ways to the summit of God-consciousness as there are human hearts. Christ can fit into our own pantheon of Avatars, for His teachings and doings bear proof He was a divine master in a state of permanent God-consciousness.”

    Clearly, this can lead to some tensions between the two religions, often in the vein, as OP notes, of Christians thinking Hindus are “demonic” or “blasphemous.”

    Pragmatically, their monks, saints and ascetics function very similarly. Contemplative prayer and the Prayer of the Heart, or so-called “Jesus Prayer”, of Orthodox monks is parallel to the mantras of Hindu yoga. Hesychasm is analogous to systematizations of yogic meditation like Kriya Yoga or Patanjali’s Raja Yoga. They both are ascetic. They both seek to keep the remembrance of God alive in one’s heart and mind at all times. Eastern Orthodoxy’s teachings of theosis are also a very close analogy to the concepts of moksha (liberation) and turiya samadhi (the enlightened state-of-consciousness) in Hinduism.

    Pic related is one of the most beautiful short books on comparative religion I’ve ever read, the Hindu yogi Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri comparing specific ideas, teachings, and passages from the New Testament with Hindu teachings. Well worth a read if you’re into that, OP.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Hindu can accept the israelite, the Christian, or the Muslim as following their own unique (yet unified in their destination) paths to God, because they’ve thought on and wrote on and systematized a massive body-of-thought concerning religion, God, the nature of reality, virtue/duty and sin (dharma and adharma), and so on, for millennia, which is expansive enough to include much of what is found in other later religions. The limits of experience and human conceptions of religion are only so much, explaining why similarities pop up so frequently across cultures, times, and lands. So, with a philosophically and theologically rich tradition going back millennia, they’re not “caught off-guard” by other religions.

      The Christian can be considered as doing Bhakti Yoga (yoga of faith, devotion, love) with Christ as the Beloved. The Hindu can consider the Muslim as doing Bhakti Yoga with Muhammad as the Beloved. Both also are partaking in what Hindus would even more technically call Ishta Devata-Bhakti, devotion to a personal God or goddess, to God or Allah, simultaneously with their reverence for Christ or Muhammad. This is no surprise because in the vast world Hinduism itself, it can easily be considered by a Hindu, that, “This one worships Krishna, another Shiva, another Rama, and this one worships Shakti. The goal they reach is the same, and all are devoted to the same God who lies in the hearts of all living beings.”

      Unfortunately and paradoxically enough, though, as the OP points out, such open-mindedness doesn’t, on the whole, seem to always apply the other way around so much, although there are exceptions.

      Bonus allusion: Sufis have also tried to say more or less the same things as some Hindus, and also hold Christ in tremendously high regard, but often faced persecution or execution for it from more intolerant Muslims. Some were even historically accused of being “secret Christians” for how frequently they referenced Christ and His teachings! You’d imagine this shouldn’t be as much of a sticking-point for Muslims, as Christ is regarded as a prophet and a saint in Islam, as well, inspired by the same God as Muhammad, yet, once again, we can see an example of how open-mindedness on the part of one group is not always met by open-mindedness on the part of another group, or the rest of humanity.

      Bonus bonus allusion: the distinction between the essence and energies of God in Eastern Orthodox theology conceived by St. Gregory Palamas, is analogous to the distinction between Paramashakti (the immanent, energetic, and feminine pole of God) and Paramashiva (the transcendental formless consciousness of God) preserved in sects like Shaiva Siddhanta, Kashmir Shaivism, and other Shaivite sects, as well as sects of Shaktism.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I've been following you on this thread and the one where you posted pic rel. (I assume you're the same poster)
        If I may ask, are you a Hindu? Or "Christianized Hindu"? I'm just curious where your interest in this topic began.

        Personally, after years of atheism I've been slowly coming back to the Christian faith through Catholicism, which I grew up with. Esoteric Christian teachings, even things like Christian Hermeticism, have been a big interest for me and my only real connection to the faith. It's kind of a mercenary approach but I see the Church more as a means to guide and carry out works, as well as to have a traditional base to establish myself. Kind of like an exoteric diving bell for a deep-sea diver. Reading Jung's work, along with Evola, hermetics, and others, I feel an intuition that religions point more to a kind of Omnism, which I'm trying to reconcile with Christianity, if at all possible. And I don't mean a homosexual protestant interpretation of Omnism, but something where you have to put work into it.
        In some threads over the years I've seen ties between Christianity and Hinduism (at least from a Hindu's perspective) and I'm wondering if you have some books or other recommended reading.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because that’s what their little mindbug fosters. Imagine thinking you had the one truth to the universe. You’d probably be the same way, they’re mentally ill.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why do other religions like the best religion and the best religion doesn't like the other religions? The enemy of the great is the good.

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