Are we all Becoming Hindu?  

THat is why the Bible says that by our fruits people should know that we love God. It doesn't say anything about "by our words shall people know that we love God." Even though that is important also.

Actions always speak louder. I hate to see people who speak all about doing good deeds in the name of god and then go ahead and kill, rob or scam people.

Your faith is itself the product of the faith around you, the faith that you have been hearing since the child hood days.

Hinduism is not big on cenversion, and to be honest there aren't that many people who are Hindu here in New York ether, but i see more and more people who do think a lot like Hinduism teaches, they don't belong to the religion, and yet they unknowingly belive some of the aspects of this religion.

Hinduism does not approve conversion simply because of its belief that the truth needs to be sought and not imposed on. Also for its belief there are many paths but the ultimate goal is the same (as mentioned by you).There is no founder in Hinduism...there are numerous sects and organizations each with its own beliefs and gurus but ultimately they are all Hindus.

Yes, and it doesn't start all these fights over who's religion is wrong like so many others do. If only all other religions were as accepting of other religions as Hinduism there would be so very few wars.

sorry .. i am hindu and i belive hindus fight among themselves over the followers of krishna and followers of shiva .. they forget that God is only 1 and takes different forms in order to diversify duty.

Yeah, i guess they forgot what hinduism really teaches... that's sad. After all we shouldn't care so much what other person belives in, we are all peopel and we should love and accept each other, not fight because of something like that.

Those who believe in Hinduism do not fight over krishna, Rama or shiva or for any other God,
Its those who believe in only one God, that is their own god, fight over it.
Its only those who have half built mind, and those who have not understanded the full concept of Hinduism, fight over gods.

Hi Sanjana,
You are correct that Vishnavites and Shaivites fought with one another but that was during the dark medieval times. After a sort of renaissance in Hindu religion, we no longer see such fights nowadays. Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are the trinity of Hinduism and while Brahma is not worshipped anywhere except Pushkar, temples of Vishnu and Mahesh are abundant everywhere and you will see people from all walks of lives visiting these temples and offering puja. Well, Vishnu might be more popular coz he guards the wealth LOL but no Vaishnavite would destroy a Shiva temple just for difference in faith.

Hinduism is a very interesting religion, I love learning about different religions, but Himduism is very unique and very tolerant of other religions. Surely like other religions it has things i don't like about it, but at least it doesn't push people into wars because "we are the only once who are right and everyone else is wrong" thinking. Much more oppened to the views of other people.

And interestingly many people do follow Hindu teachings without even realizing it.

well, i find many aspects of christian religions contradicting one another, it'd odd, but yes they sort of belive in both, heavin and soul and body being one.

I think hinduism is showing progress in the sence that more and more people ar starting to think the way Hinduism is teaching. Honestly, how many times did you hear someone say that there is only one god and it doesn't matter what religion you are? i hear it all the time from people who belong to different religions. The most important thing religions should teach is to love each other, and hinduism has been teaching to not just love each other but to love each other no matter what religion people are. and this is what is becoming more and more popular. Hinduism is progressing without being in the face. I had argumants with many peopel about religion, I have seen some very agressive about their religion being right, never had an argument like that with Hindus. I never heard hindu say that someonce religion is wrong and theirs is right. Never even heard a Hindu trying to convert atheists. If only everyone was like that when it comes to personal believes, we wouldn't have people dying every day for no good reason.

yeap, the more you focuse on on the good things in life the more good things in life you will see. Beats the depression lol.

Hinduism is a religion, just polytheistic one, Buddism on the other hand, which i btw love and am facinated with is a phylosophy. There are gods in hinduism which makes it a religion, even if there are many gods... thats how religions started in the first place, many gods... Hinduism also has a lot of phylosophical aspects though so i guess it could fall under both categories anyway. Many religions really do push their way on people, it's their way or no way. I always thought religion is supposed to unite people and bring them closer, make them love each other, instead religions make people fight over who is right and who is wrong in their believes. Hinduism is very unique in that way, they don't care who belives what. This is what i love about their believes, they don't start wars over something that is supposed to teach people to love each other.
as for scriptures, i just love it when people throughout hystory write things in the religios texts to benefit themselves, we know they did it, it's even tought in hystory class for god's sake, and people belive in these writings anyway. why not try to think for yourself instead of beliving everything that is written? People have to be really brainwashed and unable to think to belive some of the things that can be found is some religions, and the best part is that there are tons of people that actually do belive it. And the ammount of contradictions in one religion makes me wounder if people who wrote these scripts to benefit even knew the rest of the religion or only their own interpritation of it.
Karma is actually more related to our thoughts then anything else. thoughts have power to make some things happen. If we know we did something wrong and think we'll get punished, it will happen because we basically willed it to happen by thinking that it will. This is easilly explained with simple quantum physics actually, everything produces a vibration that effects everything around us, thoughts have the vibration too and they effects us and our future.
As for burning the dead due to cost, this is so true, it's more expensive to die then to live these days. though i personally would rather keep my body intact, it might as well rot and be used by the plants for food. Btw, the tradition to burry the dead in the ground originated from the belive that earth is god, a very old religion that is now almost non existant believed that after death the body should be given back to the god, to the earth.
Michael Jekson thriller? haven'theard about it... did he raise from the dead and went on a child raping quest? that would be some messed up thriller lol.

For ur age, u seem to have a lot of knowledge on this religion. May be u had access to better teachers. I did read that line that it is a philosophy, and though the gods are associated with it, it is because the philosophy advocates respect for all gods. If I can locate that sometime, I will definitely let u know. And yes, religions are supposed to unite, instead they are dividing us. Who do u think is responsible? Ego that my religion is superior to urs? Who creates that ego? Why does he or she resort to such tampering? What is his or her benefit in that? These are all the questions that come up in my mind, and I find somewhere our priests are guilty of leading us astray. I wish they would adopt a more tolerant stance, as a few of more learned and modern preachers do. The learned ones are not able to connect to the lower strata in the society as their discourses are in English, or Hindi. They even study other religions and explain the contents with reference to other holy books. I for one find several discrepancies in our epics, i.e., Mahabharata, and Ramayana. That is the reason I dont accept the religion in toto. I believe in picking the good in those books, and discarding the rest. May be they are written to guide us on how we should behave and show us what could be the outcomes.

Yes, it was explained to me that hinduism started as a way of living and slowly because they accepted all religions it ended up intertwining and now there are all these gods that became part of hinduism where originally they weren't there. Many religions have been manipulated over centuries. For examply all the writings about jesus in the bible were actually written 30 years after jesus died. while writings about a man who is most likely jesus that were written during jesus's life are banned from the bible becaseu they teach to accept one another and to love one another. in those writtings jesus teaches that god is love and love is within us, so it doesn't matter if we go to church or not to worship god, he is within. in those writting jesus also stated that he didn't want to be a center of religion, but in order to convert people to christianity it was changed in the bible and in the bible it says jesussaid that the only way to god is through him, through jesus. totally different teachings.
Thx for complimenting, i started looking deeper into religion becasue i myself was questioning it and wanted to find the truth. I looked through many religions and ended up beliving that there are only two true gods, love that we can all feel and that can bring happiness to us and earth that feeds us and provides us with everything we need.

Yes, love , love and nothing but love. Immagine if everyone in this world would stop fighting and start loving each other instead... how many problems would be solved? how many wars prevented? But for some reason even religios people who are supposed to be good pick up weapons because they disagree with someone's religion.