@Georgio Cocklord
Buddha wasnt really a heretic in the eyes of Hinduism, he was just a social heretic cause he was a royal who refused society and the social hierarchy, therefore perceived as an enemy of the caste system and in extension society as a whole. Not really a heretic in the eyes of Hinduism the religion but a heretic to Hinduism the social system. Its like how you have the billion dollar christcucks who work in megachurches and shit who are technically christian heretics.
Social heretics are heretics in the eyes of society; it's no different than a Lutheran in a Catholic party. The Caste System is everything in Hinduism. If you try to take it away, they will get mad. Down to the point when Christian missionaries arrived in India, they realized they had to preach Christianity differently to the different castes. And yes, those megachurch cucks would've gotten burned at the stake if we did things like we did 500 years ago. They're anabaptist heretics, even the Lutherans and Anglicans would join the Catholics in burying them.
Christianity is not effective at converting people, like I said the church and missionaries offered riches, resources, matrimony and a lot more to the poor and impoverished. They still do in fact in every remote corner of Pajeetland. They will offer anything you require including sex in some cases but you should become a member of the church. They will plaster religious signs everywhere, do public seminars, do religious rituals in public and if you hate Muslims trying to Islamize Europe you should hate this too. They will even incorporate iconography of other religions like they do here with Hindu iconography to get you on their side (Not really a surprising tactic since the New testament is propagandizing trash written by the Romans to convert pagans). I find it incredibly gross, cheap and borderline parasitic which I feel describes Christianity as a whole to be honest. They treat people as land to be colonized by them and their ideology, not multifaceted individuals with complexities, not even pacifist outsiders of the religion, just fucking minds to be plugged in to the church. If that is what you call effective, using cheap battle tactics to force people into your institution, then it probably is.
LOL no they do not. The Church offers alms to the poor, medical assistance, food, but riches, they often don't. After all, the life of a Christian is supposed to be sharing your riches with others, so it's usually the other way around; some rich, Fortune-500 schmuck joins the Church and they start offering alms to the poor to buy their place in heaven.
LOL the Romans were the pagans and tried to burn the New Testament. You really have no idea who wrote the New Testament or who resisted it at first. Jesus Christ's Jews wrote it and tried to convert the Romans; they had mixed success for 300 years, with the Romans trying to eradicate all copies of it, until one of the Christians managed to become Emperor thanks to his mum marrying a previous Emperor, then they actually sat down and decided which books belong in the Bible.
As for the Muslims taking Europe, well, they don't convert natives, they just bring their own people over. So no, that isn't similar at all. They're not converting white, secular/Christian people to the Islamic faith, they're just beating up white people while trying to screw their women, whereas Christians in India want Indian Christians to take over, not racially replace them with white Christians.
Also, everyone does the whole colonizing thing. Hinduism would've done it if they had a globe-spanning Empire; the Confucian Chinese Emperor tried to get neighboring lands to pay tribute to him, attacking them if they do not, which was what led to their invasion of Vietnam in the ancient days. The Buddhists in Japan tried to conquer Asia for their divine emperor in WW2. That's even more violent than the Christians spreading the Gospel through force or missionary work.
And it's such a threat to Hinduism because Hinduism has nothing to offer in return outside of a broken system where they worship cows, drink pee, and kill widows. Christ is someone who will hold you responsible for your sins and for the state of your soul, but He won't force you to worship animals or kill your widows. Hinduism at most is a national faith, giving pride to a people of a certain nationalistic identity, and if the Indian people were to disappear tomorrow, the religion itself would die. Meanwhile, if all of Europe were to disappear tomorrow, Christianity would still be around, because Christ's appeal warms the hearts of millions of brown people all over the globe.
Thats the thing I described as the problem with Abrahamic religions, they have supremacy built into the religions and its institution. Christianity colonizes through subversion of foreign cultures, Islam colonizes through sheer force and Judaism colonizes through corruption but all three want control of the entire world, all three want every single person on earth under the control of the institution. Not all religions are supremist, especially buddhism considering how isolationist actual buddhists are and how they fuck off to the mountains or remote parts of Asia. Same with Hinduism, its a largely self contained religion whose people have not invaded another land or tried to spread their religion for almost all of history (Except for the Sangam Era and their conquest of Malaysia and Indonesia which arguably didnt make religious conquest). Again I know Buddhism has been repackaged and sold to westerners as a philosophy but I know the religion, maybe not intimately but a lot of the lore and practices and it is definitely a religion. Youve got me with Confucianism though, I didnt know that, that is pretty bad. But I dont agree with the religious supremacy part, Asian religions have extremist elements which are supremecist but supremacy is not part of the framework unlike Abrahamic religions which require worldwide domination. Its part of the reason Asian people especially Pajeets dont want secular states because we are not supremecists, the religion is the most important part of the culture and we lived in religious homogeniety till the 20th century prosperous or not, we just want to be left alone and isolated to our pacifist selves and secularism is a problem because of colonialist western religions which seek domination.
Oh please. Not only is religious supremacy a thing before Christianity, especially since the Greeks tried to spread their pagan faith to the Jews and stamp out worship of Abraham's God, but Christianity actually preserves cultures and passes it on. Catholicism just as an example has tons of cultures, from Mexicans, to Filipinos, to Irish and Italians, and the Church itself preserves the Roman culture that once tried to destroy it. Literally, the only reason people still know Latin today is because Catholicism decided to use it as its
lingua franca. It's how some asshole from Poland could understand another asshole from France during the Middle Ages. And yet it was a culture that once tried to destroy the Church. Then you have the Orthodox Church which really ingratiated itself into the cultures of Eastern European countries, and the Protestant American churches which preserved America's colonial past and culture.
Supremacy was always part of the framework. The Daoist Yellow Turbans and their war with the Confucian Han Dynasty killed far more people than all the crusades or jihads combined. India and Pakistan hate each other so much that they're pointing nukes at each other, which is far more hatred than anything the British Northern Ireland had with the rest of the Irish. The only reason you don't see Indians conquering for their faith is because they can't conquer shit outside of their country; even the Japanese Buddhists tried to conquer Asia for their god-emperor and were only stopped when they got nuked twice.
And then of course, there's the violence between castes in India where people of different castes hate each other's guts and continue to fight with each other. Even to the present year. So caste supremacy is something ingrained in Indian culture, to the point where people are still killing each other for it.
It's kind of funny that you'd call the New Testament ''trash'' when your own religion kills people for utterly bullshit reasons. At least Cortez slaughtered the Aztecs for sacrificing humans to heathen gods. He did all of mankind a massive favor that day. The New Testament did more for mankind outside of just getting them to understand God's personal tastes; it jumpstarted the quest for equality among all men, because it posited that all men can receive Christ and become temples to the Holy Spirit. And if all men could have the Most High God in all of them, then of course, some people will come to the conclusion that they must all be equal in some way. Meanwhile, your faith still has lower-caste folks getting killed for caste reasons; like how lower-caste kids get killed for daring to touch a pot of water meant for upper-caste folks, or daring to play in grounds meant for upper-caste folks.
I'll take Christianity's religious supremacy over caste supremacy any day of the week. At least you can join Christianity no matter what caste or social structure you're born from; Hindu castes are something you're born into and cannot control, and you can still get killed for being the wrong caste. Christianity is the religion where some random fucking bouncer can become the Pope. Hinduism is the religion where even to this day, people kill each other over caste differences, and lower caste people are still fair game for upper-caste people to abuse.
