Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that there is no need to stir up fear around nuclear weapons, as Christians are not afraid of the end of the world.
Kirill added that this ādoes not mean that we should sit by idlyā.
āOn the contrary, our earthly mission is to be the Lordās soldiers ā¦ to resist evil and defend high moral ideals. This is the goal setting in Russia,ā he said.
Christianity is literally a death cult
The last super has cannibalism and vampirism.
Easter celebrates zombies.
Totally original idea man, imagine if Netflix made a show showing the parallels of vampires and Catholics.
So something by Anne rice?
Rad
Perhaps normal āinterpretationā, but a spectacular misinterpretation of what he meantā¦
What you eat is the body/living-substance of LivingSpirit
What you drink is the ābloodā/essence of LivingSpirit
ALL living-food is sacred.
He was telling people to focus on the prana they were eating/drinking, but in an Abrahamic-religion translation of it, & weāve only got a distorted rendition of it to go from, too.
Try comparing it with what the Hopi say, & see how itās the same thing, just in differen lingoā¦
( & yes, the way the Christian bible distorts things sometimes makes it nearly-impossible to see-through-the-cultural-gunk,
but once cracked-open, truth can be remarkably resilient )
( a completely-unrelated brilliant-insight in their bible is in Rev:
the John who wrote Rev was given the Book of Truth to eatā¦
in his mouth, syrupy-sweetā¦
in his belly, bitterā¦
Superficial-symbolic-truth is syrupy-sweet.
Digested-truth, experience-induced-understanding-that-goes-right-through, is bitter.
Perfectly nailed the diff between superficial-symbolic-ātruthā and bitter-all-context-considered-all-confounding-factors-too-Truth.
Iāve never seen any Christian identifying that profound psychological-truth, as what it is: they just memorize stuff by rote, not really-understand it?
shruggeth )
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Uhm. This is why historical context is incredibly important when talking about these things.
Jesus was the son of a carpenter. he wasnāt exactly wealthy, by any means. He certainly didnāt have the resources to take a trip to India to study anything- such a trip would have taken at least a year just to travel.
He was raised in the Jewish tradition and taught their religious teachings, which, most certainly did not include the philosophies of other religions. Suffice it to say, that Jesus was thoroughly Jewish his both his understanding of the world about him, and how he expressed that understanding.
Further to the point, when jesus was at what we now call āthe last supperāā¦ he was not speaking to a bunch of Hindus. he was speaking to a bunch of Jewish men. Even if he had been aware that Hindus exist at all- never mind having studied their teachings and philosophies- he wouldnāt be relating such in that place at that time.
When he says āthis is my bodyā or however you want to translate that, he meant it to be a more literal symbolism than you ascribe. in jewish tradition, when an animal was brought to the temple for sacrifice, it was common for only a small part of that animal to be burned at the altar. the rest of that animal was then divided between the priests and the petitioner (or it went entirely to the priests, or it was the less-common sort that was entirely burned. it depends on the reason for the sacrifice).
he was speaking to jewish men. He was establishing a new sort of sacrificial offering (the right of communion.) and while the disciples didnāt fully understand what he meant, they figured it out pretty damn quickly. he was saying heās the āfinalā sacrifice, and therefore- as part of the ritual offering- his followers were to symbolically consume his flesh and blood.
now Catholics take that a step further and follow a doctrine that says the communion bread and wine literally become such during the right (itās called ātransubstantiationā). But he was ultimately talking about how he was a sacrifice and he was establishing a new sort of ritual for his followers.
This was an echo of already-established jewish tradition. he wasnāt drawing on hindu or hopi or any one elseās teachings. he was drawing on jewish tradition surrounding sacrificial offerings and echoing that. because he and his followers were jewish.
1stly, feel free to completely-disregard everything I say,
not-only here, but everywhere.
Feel free to report my comments for removal, because Iām not saying what establishment is saying.
Feel free to downvote everything Iāve ever said, because itās said by somebody who doesnāt obey establishmentās āviewā.
Iām Empiricist: thatās my religion.
Itās a religion hated by ALL ideologies/prejudices/āreligionsā/programmings which are adamant that their non-allowing-falsification is valid,
& that contradictory-evidence is āviolationā of their āauthoritativeā belief.
So, I invite you to ājoin the majorityā & contempt āmeā & all meanings that appear to be of āmeā.
( Iād rather be honestly-contempted than dishonestly āacceptedā, by all : )
Now for the presented-positionā¦ ( this may have to be chopped into multiple-pieces, simply because of the character-limit-per-comment: itās rigorous )
Iām not saying he was repeating/parroting other-traditions.
I AM saying that he dug into all he could, of multiple traditions, and there is stark evidence IN the āNew Testamentā/New-Covenant itself that he was Buddhist, to any competent Buddhist,
( expect a competent botanist to see botanical-evidence that nobody-else sees, expect a competent geek to see logical-evidence that normal people donāt see, expect competent Buddhists to see evidence of it where people ignorant of it, donāt see it.
That is natural. : )
The ideology/āreligionā that āall swans are white: if it isnāt white, it canāt be a valid swanā
is falsifiable by the existence, anywhere, anywhen, of any non-white swan.
Australian black swans falsify it, outright.
WHEN someone who is devout-to-the-belief rejects falsification, theyāre practicing dogma, not Science/Empiricism.
That is the bedrock of all truth, in my worldview.
Therefore, ANY true evidence which falsifies ANY believed-in-belief, can force, within Empiricism, worldview-change, right?
Evidence showing benJoseph was Eastern-educated/learned is irrefutable.
https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Eightfold-Path-Christ-Buddhism-ebook/dp/B010TB0UPY/
is ONLY working within the New Testament:
Gospel of Mary is on top of that evidence.
Notovichās reporting of what Hemis Monastery had, re his ālost yearsā is corroborated/proven by whatās in Gospel of Mary, which has no justification to exist, otherwiseā¦
As āThe Dead Sea Scrolls Bibleā noted, the way benJoseph named the bible was Essene, and NOT any other factionās way.
Itās near the beginning of that book, where this is notedā¦
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008CGU6JY/
'Qumran (4QMMT): āAnd we have also written to you so that you may have discernment in the book of Moses and in the books of the Prophets and in Dav[id].ā
(It is interesting to note that Jesus uses almost the same terminology in Luke 24:44:
ā. . . that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.ā)ā
Habits, including naming-habits, are automatic.
I donāt for an instant believe that was either faked, in the Christian bible, or magically insignficant/non-evidence different-from-normal-Jewās-phrasing.
Hereās proof that that bookās statement checks-out:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+24%3A44&version=AMP
My habit of using the term OceanOfAllAwakeSouls for G-D is likewise a naming-habit that gives-away the fundamental identity of my entire religion.
Some ālittleā habits are BIG keys.
ANY presumption that he grew-up in a Pharisee, or other major-faction, childhood/youthhood, would be standing on ā¦ rather tenuous ground, given that bit of evidence.
Essenes were outcasts/aliens, from normal Judaismās reality.
( I am using Amazon.com links specifically because of the reviews AND the readable-samples, for the ebooks. )
Both of these are excellent:
https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Mary-Magdala-Jesus-Apostle/dp/0944344585/
https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Mary-Translation-Holistic-Approach-ebook/dp/B00EBAFTD8/
Iām *explicitly NOT recommending āThe New New Testamentā, which rendered a muddled blob of mess, which DISincludes the evidences that both King & Mattison gave cleanly.
https://www.amazon.com/Dhammapada-Easwarans-Classics-Indian-Spirituality-ebook/dp/B004DI7R56/ for leverage in understanding why that term would be Buddhist-normal,
In my eyes Jewish origin for it? ā¦ absurd/impossible.
in which she realized that the diagram of the root elemental processes in a single-perception, were the same, as described by Buddha Gautama & as described by modern neurological-science machines. ( EEG, MEG, fMRI, individual-neuron-measuring, the connectomeās mapping, etc )
Her entire book is just an intro to the original Buddhist psychology, btw.
https://www.amazon.com/Original-Buddhist-Psychology-Abhidharma-Experience-ebook/dp/B01LZ18OMY/
For the āmain mealā of it, youād need to read this monster, which without Beth Jacobsā intro, isnāt going to work, for most humans ā¦
https://download.pariyatti.org/_xUn1HgkZ/Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma.pdf
( other books, there: https://store.pariyatti.org/ebooks-shelf )
Stainless-Continuum doctrine has no root in any Abrahamic-religion which accepts the intentionally-adulterated Genesis ( which I get-to later ) ā¦ this is essence-of-Buddhism itself.
https://www.wisdomlib.org/concept/primordially-pure-nature
gives you the same concept, in that-conceptās modern-world home, Vajrayana.
Iām NOT accepting any ādisallowingā of surprising-to-establishment-evidence IN the New Testament, OR in Gospel of Mary.
Evidence shows what benJosephās nature actually was.
IF someoneās establishment/ideology/religion prohibits the evidence from the New Testament, as shown in Thomas Raglandās book, from being valid,
AND it prohibits the evidence in āGospel of Maryā also from being valid,
AND it prohibits the evidence in Notovichās report of what Hemis Monastery had, which justifies āGospel of Maryā, outright,
then fine, thatās their unfalsifiable-belief, & therefore their constitutional religious-right.
Empiricismās my religion: WHEN evidence falsifes a worldview, that worldview is falsified. Period.
Adapt, move-on, hold-to-what-is-true, & evolve, as G-D intended, right?
( copy-paste from my mindmap of the pieces of this broke, so ā¦ itāll be continued in Part-2 : )
Part2ā¦
So, no, I simply donāt accept that all that evidence āisnāt validā, ādoesnāt countā, & āhas no basisā, as many have insisted is āauthoritatively establishedā.
Gospel of Mary is evidence that had a cause, & that cause was esoteric-Buddhism, through benJoseph, to Mary.
( it is theoretically-possible that some powerful-conspiracy faked it, many centuries ago, ā¦ but ā¦ not bloody likely, is it? )
Evidences Iāve pointed-out all are ignored/denied by establishment.
There are other evidences, but ideology which rejects these, has no problem rejecting all the rest, too,
so therefore Iām not going to bother identifying any more, beyond this stuff
( ANY readerās ideology, not specifically the ideology/preset-belief of the one Iām replying to! Write for the reasoning to stand on its own! : )
& my Empiricist ideology/āreligionā is equally nonvalid in the eyes of all ideologies/āreligionsā which reject/contempt Empiricism, right?
Ideologies/āreligionsā are āself-sufficientā, & reject falsification, automatically!
All pack-animals, herd-beasts, & animals-with-social-identity have some kind of imprint->reaction mind.
( Kahnemanās āThinking Fast and Slowā is the key to understanding this ideology/prejudice/āreligionā/programming mindās nature, & contrasting it against considered-reasoning, the other mind-system his work showed
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA/
that is the single-most-important-book in all psychology, right now, for understanding why ideologyās rising, fighting-off considered-reasoning, throughout our entire planet,
& will continue doing-so, as stress energizes the animal-pack-dominance circuitry throughout humankindās limbic-brains & brainstems )
Empiricism insists that WHEN evidence falsifies oneās worldview, THEN one HAS TO accept that, & adapt to new/more-open worldview.
NEVER have I encountered any politically-motivated one, or any āreligiousā one, or any doctor, or for that matter any pusher-of-Scientism, including the fundamentalist neo-atheists, ā¦ who would accept evidenceās falsifying their fundamental-identity-tied-beliefsā¦
Not even once.
Iāve seen an article on how some guy noticed that in Science people are supposed to argue then change-their-mind if the evidence or reasoning justifies it, but ā¦ he was openly admitting heād never seen that done!
Not by him, not by ANYone!
Iāve done it, but Iām autistic, so am defective, according to valid-peopleā¦
My childhood was Catholic, but that got falsified by the evidence which meditations, themselves put in me.
To presume that the meditations didnāt also put objective-truth in benJoseph, is to presume that meditations simply donāt produce that category of result, which many ideologies/religions do presume.
The Essenes had āThe Book of Meditationā, which was important to them.
Where would someone brought-up with The Book of Meditation go, to dig into the root of meditation?
East.
Is there any evidence that meditation was central to benJosephās religion?
Hereās an entire book on that: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00VGJABY4/
( that book, like all Christian stuff, ignores the fact that John kept calling benJoseph ārabbiā, while railing against the false āJewsā.
Gospel of John didnāt have falsifying-quotes, as we modern-people have, for indicating bitter-sarcasm.
Rev explicitly states āthose who call themselves Jews, but are notā.
However, by āconvenientlyā ignoring that John was attacking only the false āJewsā, āChristianityā ājustifiedā holocausting Jews for centuries.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+2%3A9&version=AMP
take that same concept, false-Jews, & map it into John, & suddenly his repeating of ārabbiā for benJoseph, while railing against the āJewsā, ā¦ suddenly that identifies that John had no problem with real Jews, only gaslighters who falsely-claimed they were Jewish-religion livingā¦
How much mass torture-murder did Christianity enforce against Jews, for sake of that āconvenientā misinterpretation??
Spoto didnāt crack the disinformation, so therefore take his main-point, but he got this point wrong, & anguished over his misinterpretation-of-the-evidence. )
Established-beliefās never accepting Universeās falsification of it, is to be expected, of ideology/āreligionā/programming, right?
I canāt remember the book which identified it, but itās obvious to those whoāve been-there,
that he was sometimes speaking from human-perspective, & at other-times he was simply a kind of empty-vase, through-which greater-meaning was speaking,
( Iām later including an excerpt from Notovichās book, which also makes this clear-as-day, btw, below )
& as that book mentioned, that was automatically-understood at the time, because that was a mode people were aquainted-with,
but nowadays itās automatically disallowed as any kind of potential,
so therefore people in the new-view simply arenāt seeing what was normal, in that contextā¦
Joseph of Aramathea was weathy, & gave him a grave, & Iāve read he traveled around, from England to Asia, for his tin-mine/tin-trade business, too,
so maintaining that there was āno basisā as many say, for him to have done any such thing, when he could simply have participated in that trade-route, & got everywhere he needed-to,
doesnāt wash as a āproofā that he never did any such thing.
( & pretending that āthe lost yearsā & his NOT being married were ā¦ oddities which somehow ādonāt countā ā¦ isnāt even worth respecting as intellectually-honest.
He lived different his entire life, not just suddenly beginning at the age of 29-ish. )
( these are just off the top of my head, read Thomas Raglandās book, if you care to see evidence with your own eyesā¦ )
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New Testament:
āwhat a Continuum/Soul sows, it cannot escape reapingā === karma.
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his absolutely-correct statement about all who are not āborn in LivingSpiritā not being saved:
he was talking of Bodhichitta, exactly as the ancient rishis of Hinduism were talking about:
( nobody who has experienced it CAN misunderstand what he was saying )
G-Dās religionās bedrock is bodhichitta.
I experienced it once, & it is completely worldview-altering, even if one experiences it for only a single second.
benJoseph was right: without the unlimited frame-of-reference of bodhichitta, aka Ahimsa-GNOSIS, then one doesnāt even know what LivingSpirit means, in its frame-of-reference.
( that got cut by the char-limit, to thereās a Part3 next, sorry for the rigorous-correctness, people, but breaking disinformation, when itās really established, takes correctnessā¦ : )
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29288/29288-h/29288-h.htm#The_Life_of_Saint_Issa
then scroll down to section IV, & begin reading thereā¦
You will notice the COHERENCY of this stuff, with the record of benJoseph in the New Testamentā¦
Ignoring this as evidence, when Gospel of Mary corroborates it in a completely-surprising way, ā¦ thatās ideology, not Empiricismā¦
this excerpt is section V.
In his fourteenth year, young Issa, the Blessed One, came this side of the Sindh and settled among the Aryas, in the country beloved by God.
Fame spread the name of the marvellous youth along the northern Sindh, and when he came through the country of the five streams and Radjipoutan, the devotees of the god DjaĆÆne asked him to stay among them.
But he left the deluded worshippers of DjaĆÆne and went to Djagguernat, in the country of Orsis, where repose the mortal remains of Vyassa-Krishna, and where the white priests of Brahma welcomed him joyfully.
They taught him to read and to understand the Vedas, to cure physical ills by means of prayers, to teach and to expound the sacred Scriptures, to drive out evil desires from man and make him again in the likeness of God.
He spent six years in Djagguernat, in Radjagriha, in Benares, and in other holy cities. The common people loved Issa, for he lived in peace with the Vaisyas and the Sudras, to whom he taught the Holy Scriptures.
But the Brahmins and the Kshatnyas told him that they were forbidden by the great Para-Brahma to come near to those who were created from his belly and his feet;1
That the Vaisyas might only hear the recital of the Vedas, and this only on the festal days, and
That the Sudras were not only forbidden to attend the reading of the Vedas, but even to look on them; for they were condemned to perpetual servitude, as slaves of the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas and even the Vaisyas.
āDeath alone can enfranchise them from their servitude,ā has said Para-Brahma. āLeave them, therefore, and come to adore with us the gods, whom you will make angry if you disobey them.ā
But Issa, disregarding their words, remained with the Sudras, preaching against the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas.
He declaimed strongly against manās arrogating to himself the authority to deprive his fellow-beings of their human and spiritual rights. āVerily,ā he said, āGod has made no difference between his children, who are all alike dear to Him.ā
Issa denied the divine inspiration of the Vedas and the Puranas, for, as he taught his followers,ā"One law has been given to man to guide him in his actions:
āFear the Lord, thy God; bend thy knees only before Him and bring to Him only the offerings which come from thy earnings.ā
Issa denied the Trimurti and the incarnation of Para-Brahma in Vishnu, Siva, and other gods; āfor,ā said he:
"The eternal Judge, the eternal Spirit, constitutes the only and indivisible soul of the universe, and it is this soul alone which creates, contains and vivifies all.
"He alone has willed and created. He alone has existed from eternity, and His existence will be without end; there is no one like unto Him either in the heavens or on the earth.
"The great Creator has divided His power with no other being; far less with inanimate objects, as you have been taught to believe, for He alone is omnipotent and all-sufficient.
"He willed, and the world was. By one divine thought, He reunited the waters and separated them from the dry land of the globe. He is the cause of the mysterious life of man, into whom He has breathed part of His divine Being.
"And He has put under subjection to man, the lands, the waters, the beasts and everything which He created, and which He himself preserves in immutable order, allotting to each its proper duration.
"The anger of God will soon break forth upon man; for he has forgotten his Creator; he has filled His temples with abominations; and he adores a multitude of creatures which God has subordinated to him;
"And to gain favor with images of stone and metal, he sacrifices human beings in whom dwells part of the Spirit of the Most High;
"And he humiliates those who work in the sweat of their brows, to gain favor in the eyes of the idler who sitteth at a sumptuous table.
"Those who deprive their brothers of divine happiness will themselves be deprived of it; and the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas shall become the Sudras of the Sudras, with whom the Eternal will stay forever.
āIn the day of judgment the Sudras and the Vaisyas will be forgiven for that they knew not the light, while God will let loose his wrath upon those who arrogated his authority.ā
The Vaisyas and the Sudras were filled with great admiration, and asked Issa how they should pray, in order not to lose their hold upon eternal life.
"Pray not to idols, for they cannot hear you; hearken not to the Vedas where the truth is altered; be humble and humiliate not your fellow man.
āHelp the poor, support the weak, do evil to none; covet not that which ye have not and which belongs to others.ā
VI.
The Catholicism I was brought-up in held that Pontius Pilate was basically evil, but the Christian bible which instructs this view is contradicting the evidence right in it, in its previous lines!
Pontius Pilate fought for rule-of-Just-law, against rule-of-legalismā¦
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27%3A22-24&version=AMP
Hereās the portion of the NT where Pilate finds no guilt in benJoseph, but Herod does, & the Christian Bible falsely asserts that they were allied in Herodās determinationā¦
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+23&version=AMP
( verse 12 is the explicit-disinformation in their bible, the 1st paragraph is 1 of the records in their bible of Pilateās siding with benJoseph, & with rule-of-Just-law, but being powerless against legalism. Matthewās record seems to be significantly better, in showing Pilateās meaningā¦ )
I find fighting-with the machiavellian contamination throughout the Abrahamic religionsā texts to be exhaustingā¦
That Genesis was rewritten so that āthe fruit of the knowledge-of-good-and-evilā,
which means MORALITY ā¦
ā¦ which motherhood established in women, then women shared with menā¦
corroborating that, researchers from Exeter & Bristol universities, studying wasps in Panama, discovered that altruism among wasps is generalized-motheringā¦
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/29677/20210216/babysitting-neighbors-what-tropical-paper-wasps-according-research.htm
exactly as AwakeSoulism/Buddhism had explained that altruism is generalized-mothering literally-millenia ago ( hence the term āall our kind mothersā, referring to the ocean-of-all-other-continuums. Not SurfaceMinds, but Souls/Continuums: the apparentl-level isnāt reality. )ā¦
ā¦ men perverted their āscriptureā from speaking profound-truth, that the-fruit-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil, aka morality/moral-understanding, was eaten by women & shared with men,
to, instead, directly putting lies into scripture, to dishonestly accuse women, to justify male-bullying of women?
& Catholicism went & perverted that into āoriginal sināā¦
I happen to find the original truth still-visible in Genesis ( & that bit of G-D chattering insecurely ā¦ puh-leeze ā¦ how shallow does egotistical-projection have to be, before it gets called-out, by believers?? ).
As always, ideology rejects āhaving eyes to seeā, & rejects all outside itself, right?
The treachery embodied in Abrahamic āscriptureā is tiresome.
Gospel of Peter apparently is the root of some of the Matthew/Mark/Luke stuff, & Peterās testimony that Roman crucifixion meant spikes-through-hands was utterly-baselessā¦
Roman crucifixion was spikes-through-wrists.
But, hey, itās āscriptureā so long as itās pushing a belief, & truth isnāt a dependency, right??
like that idiocy in Matthew where it claims benJosephās lineage is 1 series, then contradicts itself, claiming it isnāt human-lineage at allā¦
Anything to overwhelm people into ābelievingā, right?
Bah!
( :
While I invite anyone to read the source-materials Iāve linked-to, & see the evidence, yourselvesā¦
Kahneman1-mind, imprint->reaction mind, ideology/prejudice/āreligionā/programming, pre-vetoes it all, as it isnāt within-ideology āauthorizedā, right?
Considered-reasoning is Kahneman2 mind ( he called it āsystem 2ā, without identifying, in its name, what the hell context the āsystemā was meant in, which is why I donāt bother with his labels ), & it actually does dig into evidence, before deciding.
Nobody āowesā ā¦ āmeā, or ANYbody, really, ā¦ considering evidence, before deciding that they ādonāt need toā consider any more evidence, right?
Itās normal, itās done all the time, authorityās better than Empiricism anyday, & thatās good-enough for ānormalā, right?
So, whichever side your religion is on, establishment-knows-what-validity-is XOR evidence-based-knowing, ā¦ just go with that sideās habit!
What could be the cost of getting that wrong??
( both short-term, on a specific issue, vs long-term, the habit of getting that wrongā¦ )
The evidence does check-out, thoughā¦
benJoseph was Essene,
brought-up very differently than what mainstream Jews would have been,
didnāt marry in his teens,
did study/know Eastern stuff that simply had no business being known among conventional Jews,
did leave evidences galore in the later-recorded āNew Testamentā,
did leave esoteric evidences in āGospel of Maryā,
& left record in the East, with exactly the same attitude & message he consistently displayed within the Roman Empire in that evidenceā¦
& ā¦ establishment disallows ALL of that, & more!
Decide where your integrity resides, & go with that!
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Some denominations are even a cannibalistic death cult (with a special focus on blood and raw meat).
All of the abrahamic religions are. It could probably be argued that Hinduism is as well, at least historically, as far as the caste system basis and such. Not sure what modern Hindu beliefs are whatsoever tho.