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</html>";s:4:"text";s:9289:" Any of the many forms, in which God might be seen as appearing, can be visually represented in Hinduism, as a way of focusing the mind on God. It seems to worship many gods and seems to do so by worshipping different images. The Abrahamic religious traditions, as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are collectively called, associate paganism with the worship of many gods, and their many idols. At Ram Swarup's suggestion, I have done some participant observation of Neopagan movements in the last couple of years. This was typical of all the religions in ancient Europe (Greeks, Romans etc). There is certainly truth in this, as the late Ram Swarup, influential Hindu thinker and author, noted. ©2020 Verizon Media. This does not mean that other activities, religious and secular, are somehow bad and to be shunned. Thus no matter how paganesque Hinduism might appear, it is not pagan in the sense attributed to the word by Abrahamic religions. This perception fuels the missionary zeal of the Abrahamic religions to destroy such paganism. Scholars such as Pennington state that the colonial polemical reports led to fabricated stereotypes where Hinduism was mere mystic paganism devoted to the service of devils, while other scholars state that the colonial constructions influenced the belief that the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Manusmriti and such texts were the essence of Hindu religiosity, and in the modern association of 'Hindu doctrine' with the … Neopagans who understand that something is missing make up for it by borrowing heavily from the living traditions of Asia. ...To all these images we pay great honour; prostrating our bodies, and presenting to them, with much ceremony, flowers, rice, scented oil, saffron, and other similar articles. Hinduism at first blush appears to conform to paganism. Sign up for Beliefnet's Hindu Wisdom newsletter. The Hindus have 33 crore Gods and Goddesses. So, either way, neo-Pagans trying to supply the innermost teachings to a tradition of which folklore and scanty surviving texts have only preserved a skeleton, have no choice but to look to surviving traditions like Hinduism. Hindus in India, and perhaps even more so overseas Hindus who have experienced a close-knit family structure and the concomitant "family values" as a great asset, would probably feel more comfortable among Christian evangelicals, with their prudish morality, than among libertine Neopagans. Monotheism in Abrahamic religions represents the denial of gods in God, while the monotheism of Hinduism represents the affirmation of gods in God. They were dispersed because they wanted to become as God, and, after being dispersed, those Middle Eastern peoples who travelled to what became ‘India’, invented pagan religious ideas that are a direct insult to God. Hinduism at first blush appears to conform to paganism. The explanation may not have convinced Bernier but Hindus apparently have no difficulty with it. Let us first understand the meaning of these words. The former is condemned as polytheism and the latter as idolatry; and the two are viewed as inextricably intertwined forms of worship, which has been superseded in the aniconic monotheism and which these religions self-consciously uphold and propagate. Sometimes Abrahamic parents wonder whether this plurality does not end up leaving the Hindus confused, and particularly their children. At this stage they attract people with a variety of motives and divergent levels of knowledge and understanding. When the 17th century French traveler, Francois Bernier, was shocked by what he saw of Hinduism, this is how the pandits of Banaras explained the situation to him: "We have indeed in our temples a great variety of images. 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