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THE STORY OF HINDUISM
BY VIPUL TRIVEDI
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Just because a book or books were written thousands and thousands of years ago does not automatically guarantee Truth. The fact is, ancient books are not sophisticatedly written as proponents make them out to be, including the Bible. If scrutinized and openly debated they don’t pass the smell test, notably on scientific, historic, cultural, political and even ethical issues.
Modern humans are just fixated on anything ancient and almost always associate it to the divine. The fact is, the average person today is hundred times more literate than the most elevated scholars from the Bronze Age Civilization.
One social problem that fixation causes is ancient knowledge oftentimes becomes a license for religious charlatans to dupe naïve and impressionable people into made up belief systems that cause hurt and hardship to unsuspecting victims, including children. Society has enough problems from established religions which rights are guaranteed by the law, but when cults assume the same rights, that always proved to be even more problematic because compared to established religions, cults are more insidious, militant and usually abusive in their operations and proselytizing. Checks and balances are not equal to that of an established or mainstream belief system. Laws and awareness are called for to help safeguard the rights of a child against veiled religious rights.
As long as the majority of us still cling on that fixation, religion will always be a sure bet money spinner. Cults will never go away.
Please read: Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out
by Rick Alan Ross
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PLEASE HELP TO FREE CHILD SLAVES IN INDIA.
Did you know that there are millions of child slaves in India? These are mainly children whose poverty stricken parents have been forced by circumstances to sell them into bonded labour. This is nothing but a form of modern day slavery. These children come mainly from the Dalit caste. A human rights watch report has informed that there are between 60 and 115 million child workers in India. That is more than the entire population of the UK!
For a human being to suffer, in this day and age, the indignity of untouchability is nothing short of a crime against humanity. Caste injustices, created and perpetuated in the name of god, are so utterly degrading and dehumanising that they should not be allowed to continue. It is time to admit that caste was not created by god; that god did not create the Dalits to serve the rest of us. We may not be able to change the world but we can do our little bit.
There are many organisations which campaign for abolition of child labour and freedom of slaves. One of them is the Bachpan Bachao Andolan which operates in India. There are other organisations which fight for Dalit rights, many of them based in the UK.
For more information on the types of challenges faced by Dalits please visit the Dalit Forum site.