Comments on: Hindus Rising: Meera Nanda and "The God Market" https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:52:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Fred B-C https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-35568 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:31:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-35568 In reply to TheHornEyed.

Right, and nothing prevents blacks from rising in America, because we have a meritocracy and you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

If you know why that rhetoric that’s omnipresent here is bullshit, you should be able to figure out why members of a minority religion in India may be struggling.

But, hey, we had people here trying to pretend there wasn’t Hindu terrorists when you can just ask the Sikhs.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-26708 Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:13:44 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-26708 In reply to TheHornEyed.

There were several prominent neopagans in the Nazi party. It was actually a major movement within it. Alongside a small contingent of social-Darwinist atheists, and a larger contingent of Positive Christians.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-26707 Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:11:51 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-26707 In reply to TheHornEyed.

Their state salaries should be zero. The state should have no involvement in funding religion.

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By: TheHornEyed https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-26703 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:46:43 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-26703 In reply to Richard Carrier.

https://www.thehindu.com/society/faith/petition-on-temple-priests-salary/article23443980.ece

Hindu Priest salary – ₹ 250/month

Muslim Imam salary – ₹ 8000/month

The salary of a Hindu priest is less than even minimum wages that need to be provided by govt. Ideally the “secular” courts should have intervened and provided justice, but they wont – well because they are “secular”

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By: TheHornEyed https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-26702 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:04:28 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-26702 In reply to Richard Carrier.

Again, equating Neopagan with Nazi seems to be a work of evangelists : Urge you look at this work

https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/swastika-is-hindu-and-the-hooked-cross-is-nazi-the-rest-is-conspiracy

If Meera was smart, she should have equated Nazi with Christianity – as the article suggests.

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By: TheHornEyed https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-26701 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 22:54:07 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-26701 In reply to Richard Carrier.

The priest is performing the work. The temples are taken over by the government and therefore its govt job to pay them. If govt doesnt want to pay the priest, then they need to give up administering temples.

// They in fact earn on average ten times that or more (many a hundred or a thousand times that).

Source ? Who pays them so much ? The priest is working for the temple (which is controlled by govt – ask them why) and so only the employer payment matters.

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By: TheHornEyed https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-26700 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 22:48:36 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-26700 In reply to Richard Carrier.

The comparison between white and black with Hindu vs Muslim is not appropriate. In US, there is a white vs black issue because white xtians genuinely belived that blacks need to be treated as slaves ( Curse of Ham). The need for affirmative action is necessary

Here Islam and Xtianty have been imposed by force. The cause of Muslim poverty for eg, is because of not proper reform to read modernity and be satisfied with a the actions of an allegedly historical bedoin figure. Nothing prevented or is preventing them from raising

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By: Jay https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-3440 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:22:01 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-3440 This is for Richard Carrier…

Hinduism is based on set of truth which are the creator is supreme being borrowing the number one human being and establishing and reestablishing heaven and paradise on earth. So this comes with number one world time is cyclical( 4 yuga) and every soul comes to earth stays in earth( this include ram krishna budha christ muhammed abrahama etc). And every one has the role to play and in the end supreme soul will play his role and change the hell created by human being to heaven. The difference is the battle is completely non violent and even the devil is non violent vegetarian well behaved Brahman. eSo innorder to be a critic you must enter the battlefield. Again you should follow the rules and you can become a god ( extrahuman) too

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By: ravi tripathi https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-3439 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:40:24 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-3439 it is awful to see how much people enjoying the criticism of hindu religion , even though I do not consider that a word ” religion ” can be appropriate word for the Hinduism , because all other religions like Christianity, islam, any other were not existed when the culture Hinduism was flourishing , and it was not just to converting people by misleading them, killing them hashing them like other main religion did. when Hinduism was teaching humanity how to live happily, how to make world better , science was progressed under Hinduism , mathematics was developed , and no hate was there as per the concept of GOD is concern. And now some authors are trying to say that billion of billion’s of people do not the the tradition, their accustoms, their grand , gand parents were not aware , but this generation new authors who might have spend 50 to 90 years of their life can explain the more than 5000 year old philosophy . how disgusting is this no scientific evidence regarding their words in the book but by their own prejudice thoughts he/she wants to make people fool .

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By: ajit https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/1327#comment-3438 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:18:54 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=1327#comment-3438 what happens if a blind man starts guiding other blinds, they both fall down in a well. don’t fall prey to this con lady and this guy whocn never understand hinduism, hinduism is a gateway to moksha(far superior to any heaven), and moreover is free for all, come and claim your rightful share. ‘ram naam ki loot hai loot sake to loot’

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