Many of us Hindus don’t engage our own religion in good faith.
1. Many come up with arbitrary first principles of Dharma-No regard for scriptures or great Ācāryas.
2. Many of those who do engage scriptures or Ācāryas, they do it with profound disrespect.
1. Many come up with arbitrary first principles of Dharma-No regard for scriptures or great Ācāryas.
2. Many of those who do engage scriptures or Ācāryas, they do it with profound disrespect.
Doubt every word of the scripture. Keep attacking authenticity of a text groundlessly. Keep imputing motives to scriptures & Ācāryas. No trust or conviction that there may be more than meets the eye when one encounters something difficult in a text. A truly disgusting approach.
Also, if you are going to privilege your arbitrary selection of “fundamental” principles over everything the religion & its intellectual leadership (historical & incumbent) has to say, you are not faithful just an arrogant prick.
Religion is also a discipline. There is an element of “craft” in it. There is “problem-solving” too. There is an quintessential place for skill & mastery in it & thus, there is a place for experts & authorities. You can’t ignore all this unless you are awfully arrogant.
There is a place for critique of experts or counter-arguments but the onus is on you to show that you know what you are talking about. If you have no mastery, your place is in the audience.
Some will frame this as “elitist”. Go ahead. As far as religious/theological opinions & “problem-solving” are concerned, elitism is pretty much a synonym for “standards”.
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