[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[Phil Stracchino]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> In fact, I personally believe the indoctrination-from-birth method is
>> the only way most of the world's religions maintain more than maybe
>> about 10% of their followers.  I suspect that if left to decode for
>> themselves as young adults, most people would say, "OK, so I should
>> believe in God/Allah/Vishnu, but not in the Easter Bunny or the Tooth
>> Fairy, *WHY*, exactly...?"
> 
> Hinduism encourages you to ask that particular question.
> 
> Much of our scripture deals with the answer.

Yeah, I have the impression many of the Indo-Asian-origin faiths
encourage believers to think about these things (and to think in
general), whereas Western-origin ones mostly seem to want their
adherents to just sit down, shut up, and believe as they're told.


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