r/politicalhinduism

Let's see how our new "secular" CM handles it this time

I know the answer already that a converted Christian will ofc support this statement by another converted Christian but let's see

Vijay ignoring the statement wouldn't surprise me

Source: https://www.indiatvnews.com/tamil-nadu/chennai-udhayanidhi-stalin-revives-anti-sanatan-pitch-in-tn-assembly-reiterates-call-for-its-eradication-2026-05-12-1040791

It took the Kakatiyas years to carve. It took a single bulldozer one day to erase.

In Khanapur, Warangal, an 800-year-old Shiva temple from the Kakatiya era has been razed to the ground. The justification? To make way for a new integrated school.

What is the point of a school built on the literal erasure of our heritage? We are teaching the next generation from textbooks while destroying the primary sources of their history right outside the classroom window.

India possesses a density of heritage that no other nation can claim, yet we often treat it with a unique brand of apathy. Why is the political class so consistently indifferent to these anchors of our culture?

This isn't just a "planning error." It reflects a deeper, systemic desire to disconnect the masses from their roots. When the state treats native Hindu civilization as an obstacle rather than a foundation, this hatred flows down into our institutions, leading to the "extraction" of our shared memory.

Restoration was an option. Designing the school around the heritage site was an option. Instead, the path of destruction was chosen. When we level these structures, we aren't just losing stones; we are losing the physical evidence of our ancestors' engineering, art, and spirit.

We must ask: Who is being served by this erasure? And what will be left for us to inherit once the bulldozers are done?

Hinduism has faced sustained assault since the colonial era — and our greatest vulnerability has never been external. It has been our own disunity: fractured by caste, regional traditions, and internal disputes that outsiders have consistently exploited.

The methods of erosion have evolved over time. Colonial-era tactics relied on coercion — forced conversions backed by threats to life, or economic incentives like tax breaks for those who converted.

Today, the weapon of choice is misinformation: a quieter, more insidious campaign to misrepresent and delegitimize.

What makes Hinduism distinct is that it has never been an evangelical faith. Our scriptures carry no mandate to convert others, no promise of heavenly reward for bringing souls into the fold. We seek no such transaction. This is a strength — but it also means we have largely stood on the defensive, reacting rather than engaging.

That needs to change. Defense alone is not enough. We must invest in knowing our own tradition deeply — its philosophy, its texts, its answers to hard questions. And we must be willing to engage critically and comparatively: to understand other religions well enough to ask the same probing questions of them that are so freely asked of us.

Knowledge is power. Fight information with information.

A starting point: What the Bible actually contains

Most interfaith criticism directed at Hinduism targets surface-level practices — idol worship, caste, rituals. These critiques often go unanswered because we are unfamiliar with the terrain of comparative religion.

Yet the Christian Bible contains passages that, read plainly, endorse slavery, sanction genocide, permit the taking of women as spoils of war, and include accounts of cannibalism during sieges — none of which receive scrutiny in Sunday sermons or missionary conversations. No church, missionaries talk about these 100s of problems in their own bible.

This is not an invitation to hatred or bad faith. It is an invitation to symmetry. If our traditions are fair game for criticism, so are theirs. Familiarize yourself with these texts — not to attack, but to level the playing field. The next time someone mocks Hindu practice, you can respond not with defensiveness, but with a question of your own.

Here's the document with the worst bits mentioned and pointing to the online Bible passages that convey this.

Please share. Knowledge is power

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/10oUy0clmN4XAKV3WSMaULtrxTOJYkvwGsU6fAwTq5a8/htmlview

Some of the worst bits mentioned in the document:

Support of slavery

Captive brides

Executing non-virgins

Allowing rape

God causing r*pe:

God wanted Babies killed

These are just a small fraction of problems in their Bible.

One entertaining point in the Bible that is funny is the omn-ipresent, all-knowing, all-powerful God himself claims that he is jealous God and wants no one else to be worshipped. This is the link:

God says he is jealous