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Hinduism
"Many Hindus allow cows to roam through their crops and eat freely, while their boys and girls suffer from malnutrition." -Bob Enyart
Now, notice this story filed on 6-26-02 by Ananova:
Child shares milk with Hindu temple rats
A child has been sharing milk from a bowl with a group of "holy" rats at an Indian temple.
Hundreds of rats live undisturbed at the Karni Mata Hindu temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan.
It's known locally as "Rat Temple".
The high priests protect the rats because their bodies are thought to house the souls of dead worshippers.
There are special holes allowing the rats to move around the temple.
It's said if you spot a white rat, you'll have good luck.
Original link: ananova.com/news/story/sm_616218.html
"Hundreds of millions of Hindus have supported the social cast system that regards million of others as untouchables, people treated like animals, lower than cows.
Unlike Christianity, Hinduism discourages scientific achievement because of its fundamental concept of brahman, that the universe was produced through a female deity's power of illusion.
Of course, the Bible teaches that the universe is real, and not like the Hindu concept of maya, that is, illusion.
Hindus believe that the world is maya, i.e., illusion.
And along with all Oriental religions, they think that salvation consists in escaping this illusion.
But, since the universe is not an illusion but real, escaping it means to escape reality.
Thus, Hinduism fundamentally keeps its adherents backward, and in ignorance, since the fundamental view of brahman (eternal essence) is that the universe is unreal.
The scientific laws of thermodynamics do not sit well in such a philosophical setting.
(By the way, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, upon which all of science is based, were defined by creationists from the Christian world, James Joule and Lord Kelvin.)
Webster's 1998 Rev. Unabridged Dictionary defines the Hindu word maya as 'the name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter.'" -Bob Enyart
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