Hinduism versus Christianity: Hinduism and Christianity Compared

Similarities and differences between Hinduism and Christianity.

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Hinduism versus Islam: Hinduism and Islam Compared

Similarities and differences between Hinduism and Islam.

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Jews believe that a descendant of King David will one day appear to restore the Kingdom of Israel. Jews refer to this person as Moshiach, translated as messiah in English and Christos in Greek. The Hebrew word 'moshiach' (messiah) means 'anointed one,' and refers to a mortal human being. The moshiach is held to be a human being who will be a descendant of King David, and who will usher in an era of peace, prosperity, and spiritual understanding for Israel and all the nations of the world. The traditional Jewish understanding of the me ...

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Judaism and Christianity, Judaism and Christianity - Neither religion is monolithic, Judaism and Christianity - Raison d'être of the religion, Judaism and Christianity - The nature of religion: national versus universal, Judaism and Christianity - Concepts of God, Judaism and Christianity - Understanding of the Bible, Judaism and Christianity - Sin and Original Sin, Judaism and Christianity - Faith versus good deeds, Judaism and Christianity - Love, Judaism and Christianity - Abortion, Judaism and Christianity - War violence and pacifism, Judaism and Christianity - Judgement, Judaism and Christianity - Capital punishment, Judaism and Christianity - Heaven and Hell, Judaism and Christianity - The Messiah, Judaism and Christianity - Catholic views, Judaism and Christianity - Eastern Orthodox views, Judaism and Christianity - Jewish views, Judaism and Christianity - Evangelism, Judaism and Christianity - Miscellaneous, Judaism and Christianity - Mutual views, Judaism and Christianity - Common Jewish views of Christianity, Judaism and Christianity - Common Christian views of Judaism

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Hinduism, Islam and Christianity: Hinduism Relationship with Islam and Christianity

The propagators of both Christianity and Islam have been doing a great service to Hinduism for the last several centuries, with their vehement criticism born out of their profound ignorance of Hinduism and their condescending sympathy for the natives. When they set foot on the Indian soil in the medieval period, they made every possible effort to declare Hinduism as a Satanic cult and a religion of the Brahmins in an attempt to draw converts from lower castes, ignoring its philosophical depths and its true character. Unknowingly, they helped Hinduism by forcing the Hindus of medieval and British India to become more defensive, resolute and determined to safeguard their own religion.

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Hinduism and Buddhism Compared

Similiarities and differences between Hinduism and Buddhism.

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Christ and Budda: Jesus Through Buddhist Eyes

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, speaking to a capacity audience in the Albert Hall in 1984 united his listeners instantly with one simple statement: "All beings want to be happy; they want to avoid pain and suffering." I was impressed at how he was able to touch what we share as human beings. He affirmed our common humanity, without in any way dismissing the obvious differences.

When invited to look at 'Jesus through Buddhist eyes', I had imagined that I would use a 'compare and contrast' approach, rather like a school essay. I was brought us as a Christian and turned to Buddhism in my early thirties, so of course I have ideas about both traditions: the one I grew up in and turned aside from, and the one I adopted and continue to practise within. But after re-reading some of the gospel stories, I would like to meet Jesus again with fresh eyes, and to examine the extent to which he and the Buddha were in fact offering the same guidance, even though the traditions of Christianity and Buddhism can appear in the surface to be rather different.

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Relation between Hinduism and Zoroastrianism

Like the Rigvedic Aryans, the ancient Iranians worshipped gods like Mitra, Vayu, Verutraghna. They also wore the sacred thread and worshipped fire. They had a social organization that was in some ways similar to the Vedic occupation based social system. 

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The Hebrew word for Passover is Pesach, a combination of peh and sach . The two words mean, 'the mouth speaks'. Passover is all about communication.

It all started with that communication from God to Moses or Moshe about the redemption of the Hebrews from their slavery under the Pharoah. This Holy communication guided the oppressed to freedom. For this act of redemption the Jews are so reverential to Him that they never write the word 'God' in full. Instead, they write G-d, afraid that the paper on which it is written may get trampled upon, however inadvertently. For God's name, YaHWeH, or JeHoVaH they use the tetragrammaton, YHWH, or JHVH. With the vowels absent, they cannot and do not pronounce His name.

(See also: Passover, Indian Festivals, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Vedic Astrology and Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health

In order to maintain a healthy mind we must realize the true realities of life. Therefore we must consider our spiritual nature to understand the subtleties of mind, intelligence and ego. Accordingly mental, emotional and spiritual health go together and, unless you have some knowledge in this regard, you cannot stop the onslaught of negative emotions brought on by ignorance and fear. We not only need to engage ourselves in some sort of fulfilling work to occupy our minds but need to understand why we fall victim to feelings of hate, envy, greed and avarice. These emotions only serve to destroy us intellectually, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. Why is there so much hate in the world, anyway?

Excerpt from "An Introduction to Vedic Astrology" by Howard Beckman

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Dark Spirituality is a broad term used to describe the Left Hand Path religions, however small groups of people are beginning to define themselves as dark spiritualist without identifying themselves as practicing any of the well known left hand paths. The religion believes all spiritualities divide into a dark spirituality/light spirituality dichotomy. Light spiritualist are believed to draw together into groups to seek out a higher being or beings to act as their Goddess/God or Goddesses/Gods. The dark approach is believed to be a solitary approach that leaves one responsible for their own spiritual growth with ...

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• Dark Spirituality - Spiritual Goal
• Dark Spirituality - Morality
• Dark Spirituality - Occult Beliefs

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Religion (see etymology below) —sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system—is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine; and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. In the course of the development of religion, it has taken ...

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• Religion - Etymology
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• Religion - Esotericism and mysticism
• Religion - Spirituality
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• Religion - Approaches to the study of individual religions
• Religion - Methods of studying religion subjectively in relation to one's own beliefs
• Religion - Methods of studying religion objectively in a scientific and religiously neutral fashion
• Religion - Development of religion
• Religion - Religion today
• Religion - Approaches to relating to the beliefs of others
• Religion - Exclusivism
• Religion - Inclusivism
• Religion - Pluralism
• Religion - Syncretism
• Religion - Universalism
• Religion - Systemization
• Religion - Religion and other approaches to forming beliefs about the nature of the universe
• Religion - Related philosophical stances
• Religion - Compare with

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Adi Da Samraj (born Franklin Albert Jones, November 3, 1939 in Jamaica, New York) is a highly controversial modern spiritual teacher and religious guru and the founder of the new religious movement known as Adidam. At various times, Adi Da has also used names such as Bubba Free John, Da Free John, and Da Love-Ananda, to correspond with changes in his work as a spiritual teacher (see the section on name changes below). For clarity, in this article he is referred to simply as Adi Da, as this is the name he is ...

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• Adi Da - Life
• Adi Da - Teaching
• Adi Da - Response
• Adi Da - Complete Teaching Literature
• Adi Da - The Dawn Horse Testament
• Adi Da - The Five Books Of The Heart Of The Adidam Revelation
• Adi Da - The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse
• Adi Da - Name changes
• Adi Da - Books by other authors

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A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a "god". A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. As the concept of monotheism and polytheism can be relativistic, so too can related concepts be culturally misunderstood. The concept of gender as applied to a god and goddess, may connote deeper tendencies of patriarchy and matriarchy, which ...

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• Goddess - Ancient Near East
• Goddess - Egypt
• Goddess - Mesopotamia
• Goddess - Arabia
• Goddess - Indo-European religion
• Goddess - Hinduism
• Goddess - Graeco-Roman religion
• Goddess - Celtic religion
• Goddess - Germanic religion
• Goddess - Abrahamic religions
• Goddess - Judaism
• Goddess - Christianity
• Goddess - Islam
• Goddess - New religious movements
• Goddess - Wicca and Neopaganism
• Goddess - Religious feminism
• Goddess - Secular use

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A pioneer is a volunteer Bahá'í who leaves his or her home to journey to another country for the purpose of teaching the Bahá'í Faith. The act of going to another country is termed pioneering. Bahá'ís refrain from using the term "missionary". During the Ten Year Crusade which ran from 1953 to 1963, hundreds of pioneers settled in countries and territories throughout the world, which eventually led to the establishment of 44 new National and Regional Spiri ...

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• Pioneering Bahá'í - Teaching versus proselytization

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Scientology was presented by L. Ron Hubbard at a lecture in 1952. His definition included, "Scientology would be a study of knowledge." In 1954 today's Church of Scientology (often abbreviated CoS) was established. It presents itself as an "applied religious philosophy," and has been established as a recognized religion in more than 100 countries. The term Scientology is a trademark of the Religious Technology Center, which licenses its use and use of the copyrighted works of Hubbard to the Church of Scientology. The Chu ...

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• Scientology - Beliefs and practices
• Scientology - Auditing
• Scientology - The ARC Triangle
• Scientology - The tone scale
• Scientology - Past lives
• Scientology - Operating Thetan levels and the Xenu incident
• Scientology - Scientology and other religions
• Scientology - Origins
• Scientology - The Church of Scientology
• Scientology - Independent Scientology groups
• Scientology - Controversy and criticism
• Scientology - Official Status as a Religion
• Scientology - Scientology and psychiatry
• Scientology - Scientology Versus The Internet
• Scientology - Scientology in popular culture
• Scientology - Celebrity practitioners

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Isha Upanishad (IAST īśopaniṣad), also known as the Ishavasya (īśāvāsya) Upanishad, is one of the smaller Upanishads but is probably the most often quoted Upanishad. Ishopanishad - About the Upanishad. Ishopani ...

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• Ishopanishad - About the Upanishad
• Ishopanishad - A Difficult Upanishad
• Ishopanishad - Operational plan for how to live
• Ishopanishad - Two most beautiful verses descriptive of Atman
• Ishopanishad - Stepwise Formula for identification with the Ultimate
• Ishopanishad - A most powerful profile of the Self in all of Upanishads
• Ishopanishad - Verses #s. 9 10 and 11
• Ishopanishad - Seven interpretations as a sample
• Ishopanishad - Practical implications
• Ishopanishad - More Technicalities
• Ishopanishad - Winding up with a universal prayer
• Ishopanishad - Allegory of the Golden Container
• Ishopanishad - The final utterance
• Ishopanishad - Sources

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Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, "God", + λογος, logos, "word" or "reason"). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. A theologian is a person learned in theology. Theology - History of the term. The word "Theology" is derived from Hellenistic Greek, but its meaning has changed significantly through its use in the European Christian thought of the Middle ages and Enlightenment The term theologia is us ...

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• Theology - History of the term
• Theology - A brief history of Theologies
• Theology - Theology and religions other than Christianity
• Theology - Theology and the Academy
• Theology - Theological studies in different institutions
• Theology - Divisions of theology
• Theology - Quotes

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Crestone is a town located in Saguache County in Southwestern Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 73. It is a small village at the foot of the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range, in the northern part of the San Luis Valley. Crestone was a small mining town, but little paying ore was discovered. In the 1970s a large land development, the Baca Grande, was established to the ...

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• Crestone Colorado - Demographics

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Opposition to cults and new religious movements (NRMs) comes from several sources with diverse concerns: family members of adherents, former members, psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists, adherents from established religions, cult watchers and skeptics. Depending on their background and goals, such individuals and groups are active in various fields: Some mainly provide information on cults, cultic groups or non-orthodox religious movements regarding their practices and beliefs through websites and ...

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• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - History
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• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Five types of cult watching groups by Eileen Barker
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Opposition to cults: a taxonomy by Jeffrey Hadden
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Cult watching groups and individuals and other opposition to cults
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Family members of adherents
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Psychologists and psychiatrists
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Former members
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Established religion
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Scientology' opposition on the internet
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• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Skeptics
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• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Polarized views among scholars
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Brainwashing and mind control
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• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - The anti-cult movement and cult apologists
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - NRMs and critics
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Further information
• Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Bibliography
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Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for "wise man" or "thinking man"): a bipedal primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, together with the other apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons. Humans have an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects and a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, speech, language, and ...

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• Human - Terminology
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• Human - Life cycle
• Human - Genetics
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• Human - Origins
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• Human - Body image
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• Human - Artifacts technology and science
• Human - Mind
• Human - Psychology and human ethology
• Human - Philosophy
• Human - Motivation
• Human - Self-reflection and humanism
• Human - Spirit

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