God - The Only Real One

In my previous blog God: World Perspective, I tried to explain what is the world view on God and we saw that there are 100’s of religion and each one of them has its own way of interrupting who is God and how to worship God.

In this blog we will try to discuss and come to a conclusion about who is the only real God. So let me start with explaining the draw backs of the beliefs found in most of the religions. Before that let me explain some of the characteristics God will possess. With these characteristics we will try to triage each religion and come to a conclusion of which is the real one and only God.

Attributes of God – The Meaning

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” So says A.W. Tozer in his classic book on the attributes of God, The Knowledge of the Holy. Why would he make such an extreme pronouncement? Tozer goes on to say, “Man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshipper entertains high or low thoughts of God.”  In our hearts we know the above is true. It is not enough to follow “God”. That word has come to mean so many different things today that it actually means very little. If we just make up our own minds concerning what He is like, then we are just creating an idol in our heads.

Attributes of God – The Characteristics

1.      Wisdom: “Wisdom is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve these ends by the most perfect means.” In other words, God makes no mistakes.

2.      Infinitude: God knows no boundaries. He is without measure. This attribute by definition impacts all of the others. Since God is infinite, everything else about Him must also be infinite.

3.      Sovereignty: This is “the attribute by which He rules His entire creation.” It is the application of His other attributes of being all-knowing and all-powerful. It makes Him absolutely free to do what He knows to be best. God is in control of everything that happens. Man still has a free will, and is responsible for his choices in life.

4.      Holiness: This is the attribute that sets God apart from all created beings. It refers to His majesty and His perfect moral purity. There is absolutely no sin or evil thought in God at all. His holiness is the definition of that which is pure and righteous in all the universe. Wherever God has appeared, such as to Moses at the burning bush, that place becomes holy just for God having been there.

5.      Omniscience: “God possesses perfect knowledge and therefore has no need to learn. God has never learned and cannot learn.” Omniscience means all-knowing. God knows everything, and His knowledge is infinite. It is impossible to hide anything from God.

6.      Faithfulness: Everything that God has promised will come to pass. His faithfulness guarantees this fact. He does not lie. What He has said in the Bible about Himself is true. Jesus even said that He is the Truth. This is extremely important for the followers of Jesus because it is on His faithfulness that our hope of eternal life rests. He will honor His promise that our sins will be forgiven and that we will live forever with Him.

7.      Love: “God is love.” This means that God holds the well-being of others as His primary concern.

8.      Omnipotence: Literally this word means all-powerful. Since God is infinite and since He possesses power, He possesses infinite power. He does allow His creatures to have some power, but this in no way diminishes His own. “He expends no energy that must be replenished.” Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power. Different religions has different opinion for omnipotence of God. Some of the omnipotent properties include

a.      God is able to do anything that it chooses to do.

b.      God is able to do anything that is in accord with its own nature (thus, for instance, if it is a logical consequence of a God’s nature that what it speaks is truth, then it is not able to lie).

c.      Hold that it is part of a God’s nature to be consistent and that it would be inconsistent for said God to go against its own laws unless there was a reason to do so.

d.      God can bring about any state of affairs which is logically possible for anyone to bring about in that situation.

e.      God is able to do anything that corresponds with its omniscience and therefore with its world-plan.

f.       Every action performed in the world is 'actually' being performed by the God, either due to omni-immanence, or because all actions must be 'supported' or 'permitted' by the God.

9.      Self-existence: “I AM THE ONE WHO ALWAYS IS.” God has no beginning or end. He just exists. Nothing else in all the universe is self-caused. Only God. In fact, if anything else had created Him, that thing would be God. This is a difficult concept for our minds since everything else we will ever encounter comes from something other than itself.

10.   Self-sufficiency: All other life in the universe is a gift from God. He has no needs and there is no way He can improve. To God, nothing else is necessary. He does not need our help with anything, but because of His grace and love, He allows us to be a part of advancing His plan on earth and being a blessing to others. We are the ones who change, but never God. He is self-sufficient.

11.   Justice: It is Gods character that defines what being just really is. He does not conform to some outside criteria. Being just brings moral equity to everyone. When there are evil acts, justice demands there be a penalty. Since God is perfect and has never done evil, no penalty would ever be necessary; however, because of His love, God paid the penalty for our evil deeds by going to the cross Himself. His justice needed to be satisfied.

12.   Immutability: This simply means that God never changes.

13.   Mercy: “Mercy is the attribute of God which disposes Him to be actively compassionate.” God is free to show mercy to all those who have chosen to follow Him. It will never end since it is a part of God’s nature. Mercy is the way He desires to relate to mankind, and He does so unless the person chooses to despise or ignore God at which time His justice becomes the prominent attribute.

14.   Eternal: In some ways, this fact about God is similar to His self-existence. God always has been and will forever be, because God dwells in eternity. Time is His creation. It is why God can see the end from the beginning, and why He is never surprised by anything. If He were not eternal, God’s promise of eternal life for those who follow God would have little value.

15.   Goodness: “The goodness of God is that which disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men.” This attribute of God is why He bestows all the blessing He does on His followers. God’s actions define what goodness is.

16.   Gracious: God enjoys giving great gifts to those who love Him, even when they do not deserve it. Grace is the way we describe that inclination. Jesus Christ is the channel through which His grace moves.

17.   Omnipresence: This theological term means “always present.” Since God is infinite, His being knows no boundaries. So, clearly He is everywhere. Omnipresence or ubiquity is the property of being present everywhere. Different religions has different meanings for omnipresence of God.

18.   Imminent: Immanence refers to those philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world.

Islam

Let’s start with Islam. In Islam, they follow Allah as the one and only God and the book that is written to follow Allah is named as Quran. The Quran (literally meaning "the recitation"; also romanised Qur'an or Koran) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Allah). Its scriptural status among a world-spanning religious community, and its major place within world literature generally, has led to a great deal of secondary literature on the Quran. Quranic chapters are called suras and verses are called ayahs.

Muslims believe the Quran was verbally revealed by God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel (Jibril), gradually over a period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 AD, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632 AD, the year of his death. Muslims regard the Quran as the most important miracle of Muhammad, a proof of his prophethood, and the culmination of a series of divine messages that started with the messages revealed to Adam and ended with Muhammad. They consider the Quran to be the only revealed book that has been protected by God from distortion or corruption. According to the traditional narrative, several companions of Muhammad served as scribes and were responsible for writing down the revelations. Shortly after Muhammad's death, the Quran was compiled by his companions who wrote down and memorized parts of it. These codices had differences that motivated the Caliph Uthman to establish a standard version now known as Uthman's codex, which is generally considered the archetype of the Quran we have today. However, the existence of variant readings, with mostly minor and some significant variations, and the early unvocalized Arabic script mean the relationship between Uthman's codex to both the text of today's Quran and to the revelations of Muhammad's time is still unclear. So now we will try to examine why Quran is just like any other book and not really the book revealed by God (in case of Islam, Allah) to the so called Prophet Muhammad.

First of all I have to admit I am not a scholar in Quran or Islamic values but whatever I have researched and found makes sense to me, and I would like to share the same with the world. Okay now we will dive into some of the errors or contradictions in Quran itself. There is more than 1 version of the Quran itself.

a.      The Warsh Quran

b.      Qalun Quran

c.      al-Bazzi Quran

d.      Qunbul Quran

e.      al-Duri Quran

f.       al-Suri Quran

g.      Hisham Quran

h.      Ibn Dhakwan Quran

i.       Khalaf Quran

j.       Khallad Quran

k.      al-Duri Quran

l.       Abu'l-Harith Quran

m.    Hafs Quran

n.      Ibn Wardan Quran

o.      Ibn Jamaz Quran

p.      Ishaq Quran, etc

These are not "translations" as the following verses differ between the Warsh version (popular in Africa) & the Hafs versions (popular in Middle East) of the Quran: 2:259, 3:81, 6:96, 2:140, 2:125, 3:146, 2:132, 91:15, 2:132, 3:133, 5:45, 2:139, 2:259, 2:214, 2:184 & 28:48.

Since part of the Islamic claim is that God has been giving revelations to mankind throughout history, including the Psalms of David and the four Gospels, one wonders why it is claimed that Allah miraculously preserved the Qur’an in infallible copies, whereas Allah was apparently singularly incapable of accomplishing the same feat with the previous revelations. Let us weigh the validity of the claim at hand. Just how excellent is the literary quality?

 In his book, Jesus among Other Gods, well-known Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias argues:

“Let us consider just one troublesome aspect, the grammatical flaws that have been demonstrated. Ali Dashti, an Iranian author and a committed Muslim, commented that the errors in the Qur’an were so many that the grammatical rules had to be altered in order to fit the claim that the Qur’an was flawless. He gives numerous examples of these in his book, Twenty-three years: The Life of the Prophet Mohammed. (The only precaution he took before publishing this book was to direct that it be published posthumously.)”

In the book which Zacharias cites above, Dashti writes:

“The Qur’an contains sentences which are incomplete and not fully intelligible without the aid of commentaries; foreign words, unfamiliar Arabic words, and words used with other than the normal meaning; adjectives and verbs inflected without observance of the concord of gender and number; illogical and ungrammatically applied pronouns which in rhymed passages are often remote from the subjects. These and other such aberrations in the language have given scope to critics who deny the Qur’an’s eloquence…To sum up, more than 100 Qur’anic aberrations from the normal rules and structure of Arabic have been noted.”

In A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, Islamic apologist I. A. Ibrahim argues:

“The Qur’an, which was revealed fourteen centuries ago, mentioned facts only recently discovered or proven by scientists. This proves without doubt that the Qur’an must be the literal word of God, revealed by him to the Prophet Muhammad, and that the Qur’an was not authored by Muhammad or by any other human being.”

How valid is this claim? First, conformity to science is not proof of divine inspiration. As modern scientists will admit, scientific models are constantly changing, so they are not an absolute gauge for what is true or false. Second, there are some highly suspect scientific statements in the Qur’an which are ignored by modern Islamic apologists. For example, Surah 23:14 makes the claim that human beings are formed from a clot of blood. Surah 18:86 claims that the sun sets in a spring of murky water. Clearly, even if the claims with respect to scientific insights were valid, the above statements would immediately falsify any such notion of divine inspiration.

In an article in 1999 Atlantic Monthly, Gerd Rüdiger Puin is quoted as saying that:

My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within the Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants.

The Koran claims for itself that it is 'mubeen,' or 'clear,' but if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesn't make sense. Many Muslims—and Orientalists—will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Koranic text is just incomprehensible. This is what has caused the traditional anxiety regarding translation. If the Koran is not comprehensible—if it can't even be understood in Arabic—then it's not translatable. People fear that. And since the Koran claims repeatedly to be clear but obviously is not—as even speakers of Arabic will tell you—there is a contradiction. Something else must be going on.

While the list of historical inaccuracies and anachronisms is vast, one has been selected for discussion here. Surah 20 relays the incident of the golden calf. In Surah 20:85-88, 95 we read:

“He [Allah] said, ‘we have tempted thy people since thou didist leave them. The Samaratin has led them into error.’ Then Moses returned…and we cast them [(gold) ornaments], as the Samaritan also threw them, into the fire.’ (Then he brought out for them a Calf, a mere body that lowed; and they said, ‘This is your god, and the god of Moses, whom he has forgotten.’)…Moses said, ‘and thou, Samaritan, what was thy business?’”

Now, let us consider this for just a moment. How can a Samaritan have led the Israelites astray at the time of Moses (approx 1400 B.C.) when the city of Samaria was founded by King Omri about 870 B.C.? The Samaritans did not exist until after the exile of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the resettlement of the area under King Sargon II in 722 B.C. with non-Israelites who then adopted a syncretism (mixture) between the religion of the Jews and their own polytheistic background. The Samaritans did not exist until 530 years after Moses. By this mistake alone, the Qur’an can be rendered unreliable and certainly not an inerrant work of God.

There are more than a 1000 contradictions in the Quran add this figure to the Contradiction Capital aka. The hadiths & you will not have the time in your entire life to go through each of them.

A few contradictory verses of the Quran are below:

1.      Will Christians enter Paradise or go to Hell? Sura 2:62 & 5:69 say "Yes", Sura 5:72 & 3:85 say "No".

2.      The Qur'an is "clear Arabic speech." [16:103] yet "NONE knows its interpretation, save only Allah." [3:7]. actually, "men of understanding do grasp it." [3:7]

3.      Wine: Good or bad? Strong drink & are only an infamy of Satan's handiwork. [5:90]. yet on the other hand in Paradise are rivers of wine [47:15]. How does Satan's handiwork get into Paradise?

More evidences from Islamic scripture that shows why the Quran is not an original:

1.      Bukhuri: vol. 4, hadith 682, bk 56: Narrated Ibn Mas'ud: I heard a person reciting a (Quranic) Verse in a certain way, & I had heard the Prophet reciting the same Verse in a different way. So I took him to the Prophet & informed him of that but I noticed the sign of disapproval on his face, & then he said, "Both of you are correct, so don't differ, for the nations before you differed, so they were destroyed." The above hadiths clearly shows that Mohamed allowed some variation regarding the reciting of the Qur'an.

2.      Bukhari: vol. 6, hadith 509, p. 477; bk 61: Narrated Zaid-bin-Thabit: Abu Bakr As-Siddiq sent for me when the people of Yama-ma had been killed (i.e. a number of the prophets companions who fought against Musailama). (I went to him) & found Umar bin Al-Khattab sitting with him. Abu Bakr then said to me, "Umar has come to me & said: `Casualties were heavy among the Qurra of the Qur'an (ie those who knew the Qur'an by heart) on the day of the battle of Yama-ma, & I am afraid that more heavy casualties may take place among the Qurra on other battle fields, whereby a large part of the Qur'an may be lost. Therefore I suggest that you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qur'an be collected'." I said to Umar, "How can you do something Allah's Apostle did not do?" Umar said, "By Allah, which is a good project". Umar kept on urging me to accept his proposal till Allah opened my chest for it & I began to realize the good idea which Umar had realized.

This hadith clearly shows that Mohamed never made a final collection of the Qur'an before his death, for when Abu Bakr was asked to collect the Qur'an into one volume he said: How can you do something Allah's Apostle did not do? Mohamed did not make a final collection of the Qur'an because there were many of his companions whom he trusted to teach the Qur'an & these made their own collections

3.      Bukhari: vol. 6, hadith 521, pp. 487-488; bk 6: Narrated Masruq "I heard the Prophet saying, "Take (learn) the Qur'an from 4 (men): `Abdullah bin Masud, Salim, Mu'adh & Ubai bin Ka'b." These companions of Mohamed made their own collections of the Qur'an & taught the Qur'an to their students. However these Qur'ans were not the same & confusion soon arose amongst the early Muslims as to what was the right way to recite the Qur'an. The next 2 hadiths give e.g's of this confusion.

4.      Bukhari: vol. 6, hadith 468, p. 441-442; bk 60: Narrated Ibrahim: The companions of 'Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) came to Abi Darda', (& before they arrived at his home), he looked for them & found them. Then he asked them,: "Who among you can recite (Qur'an) as Abdullah recites it?" they replied, "All of us." He asked, "Who among you knows it by heart?" They pointed at 'Alqama. Then he asked Alqama. "How did you hear 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud reciting Surat Al-Lail?" Alqama recited:'By the male & the female.' Abu Ad-Darda said, "I testify that I heard me Prophet reciting it likewise, but these people want me to recite it: -- '& by Him Who created male & female.' But by Allah, I will not follow them."

The above hadith shows that Muslims from different regions disagreed as to the way a particular verse should be read. Those who learnt the Qur'an from 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud said surah 92:1-3 as 'By the male & the female.' while other Muslims said, '& by Him Who created male & female.' Thus the early Muslims had not all memorized the Qur'an the same way. We see this problem again in the foll. Hadith.

5.      Bukhari: vol. 6, hadith 527, p. 489; bk 61: Narrated Ibn Abbas:Umar said, `Ubai was the best of us in the recitation yet we leave some of what he recites'. Ubai says, `I have taken it from the mouth of Allah's Apostle & will not leave for anything whatever'. But Allah said: `None of our revelations do we abrogate or cause to be forgotten but we substitute something better or similar.' (Qur'an 2:106).

This hadith clearly shows that the Companions of Mohamed disagreed over which verses were abrogated. The above 2 hadiths record how Masud & Ubai recited d Qur'an differently to other Muslims. We have already seen that these 2 men were recommended by Mohamed as men worthy to learn d Qur'an from. However since their collections of the Qur'ans were not d same this caused problems for the Muslims who learned d Qur'an from them.

Conclusion

Having outlined just a handful of many problems and difficulties pertaining to the Qur’an as a divinely inspired work, we are all but forced to reject the Islamic claim that the Qur’an represents an error-free word of God to humanity. If Islam came from the Creator, why would it embrace pagan, animistic practices, such as kissing a black stone, encircling the Ka’aba on pilgrimages, or making the Ka’aba (a pagan relic) the object of prayer? Why would Islam focus the Muslim’ attention of things rather than on the Creator?

Now we can see how is Islam’s God (Allah) measure up to the characteristics of God that I mentioned initially.

Characteristics	Present in Allah or Not	Reason
Wisdom	No	If Wisdom is present in Allah and does not make mistakes then how come there are multiple places in Quran with contradictory statements.
Infinitude	No	If Allah is infinite then why Muslims pray to a particular side saying Quran says so “Turn then thy face in the direction of the Sacred Mosque” (Qur'an, Surah 2:144). If so then is Allah present only in one place in a stone which is finite and covered with black cloth.
Sovereignty
Holiness
Omniscience
Faithfulness
Love
Omnipotence
Self-existence
Self-sufficiency
Justice
Immutability
Mercy
Eternal
Goodness
Gracious
Omnipresence
Imminent

 

Now I leave it to the judgment of you people on how can we believe in a book that is told to be revealed by God but has lot of errors or contradictions in it. Moreover there are 1000’s of links in internet with more information on why Quran is wrong in so many ways, some of the link that I used for the research are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam, http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Scientific_Errors_in_the_Quran, http://www.gotquestions.org/errors-Quran.html and https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111223185714AAEMpv9.

Hinduism

Now we will jump to Hinduism which is more popular in Indian Sub-continent. The three cardinal principles of Hinduism are:

1.      Belief in a series of births (reincarnation).

2.      Belief in Avatars of the Lord for the reestablishment of Dharma and the transformation of those who have strayed from it.

3.      Belief in Karma, the fact of every activity having its inevitable consequences and of human destiny being shaped by cumulative effect of all these consequences. Karma is the cause of births, the Jivi being compelled to undergo another ordeal for clearing its accounts and becoming free of both debit and credit.

The life aim of Hindus is to reach fulfillment through constant spiritual discipline, the fulfillment that comes from the awareness of one's Divinity. Merging with the Divine is the attainment of fullness. The Vedas are the soul that sustains the spiritual life of Hindus. They are the breath that that keeps the people alive. The Vedas emanated from God Himself. The great sages received the Vedas as a series of sounds and spread it over the world by word of mouth from preceptor to the pupil. One can know from the Vedas the code of right activity and the body of right knowledge. The Vedas teach man his duties from birth to death. They describe his rights and duties, obligations and responsibilities in all stages of life. In order to explain the Vedas in simpler terms, the Puranas (scriptures) and epic texts appeared in course of time. Two such great epics are the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Another great spiritual text of Hinduism is the Bhagavat Gita, which helps people to control the agitation of the mind, destroy the delusion, develop true knowledge and make one catch a glimpse of the glory of the Lord.

The word Hindu means those who keep away from the path of violence, away from inflicting injury on others. The essence of all the scriptural texts of Hinduism can be described in one sentence as "Help Ever, Hurt Never". Aum, which is a primary symbol of Hinduism, is the symbol of unchanging eternal, universal supreme God. Aum, is the primordial word, which gives life to all the other words. Aum is the origin of creation. It contains the essence of all the Vedas and is the source of all the scriptures.”

While we think of it as the faith of India, it actually traces its origins to a mysterious tribe of Europeans called the Aryans who invaded and conquered Northern India from 1500 BC to 500 BC. The light-skinned Brahmins of Northern India claim to be their physical and spiritual descendants.

The Aryans

The Aryans brought with them their sacred writings called the Vedas. They were originally fire worshipers and this is why they believed in cremation instead of burying their dead. They also invented the theory of soul-transmigration in which at death you do not go to heaven or to hell but you are reborn into another body on earth. This next body could be animal, vegetable or human depending on whether you were good or bad. Your past behavior catches up with you in your present life due to the law of karma. You could in your next reincarnation end up a clam, a carrot, a bush or a human being. The highest rebirth you could wish for was to be born as one of the white-skinned Brahmins who by virtue of their color were considered the “higher” class.

The Ugly Reality of Racism

The inherent racism of historic Hinduism is thus blatant. You were judged by the color of your skin, not the content of your character, skills or talents. The darker your skin, the lower your caste and rank in Hindu society. The whiter your skin, the higher your caste and rank. The Brahmins prided themselves on their white skin while despising the darker skinned untouchables who were often viewed and treated as sub-humans. This explains why Hindu gurus are more than willing to travel to the West to convert rich white Europeans to Hinduism BUT never travel to black Africa to make converts. The truth is, they don’t want black people whose skin color is an indication of bad karma. As long as they can sucker rich white people into giving them money (“Money is evil. So give it all to me.”) Why bother with darker skinned people? This can be documented by the statements of many of the gurus who have reaped riches in the West. When one guru was asked on TV what he was doing to help the poor, he responded, “Let the Christians take care of them. I am here to help the rich.”

The Caste System

The terrible caste system was invented in order to protect the white Brahmins from polluting their sacred whiteness with black blood. You had to marry and to labor in the caste into which you were born. The lines were clearly drawn and on one was allowed to move from one caste to another by marriage or trade. The mechanism of the caste system is tied to the Hindu theory of soul-transmigration in which your rebirth determines your caste. Your rebirth was predetermined by your karma. Your karma was in turn was determined by how you lived in your past life. For example, if you were born with a dark skin to untouchable parents, your life of misery and poverty is your punishment for being evil in your previous life. In other words, you are getting what you deserved. The poor, the sick, the disabled, the dark-skinned, etc. are what they are because of their own fault. They deserve their suffering because they did something bad in a previous life and their karma has caught up with them. We should not interfere with their suffering because if we do, we will doom them to experience it in the next life. Thus the kindest thing to do is to let them alone so they get their suffering over and hopefully have a better rebirth the next time around. On the other hand, if you were born with white skin to Brahmin parents, your life of wealth and pleasure is your reward for good deeds done in your previous life. You deserve to be rich and white. You earned it. Thus you have no moral obligation to help those less fortunate them you. The social inequities of Hinduism ultimately led millions of lower caste Indians to abandon Hinduism for Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism or Christianity because those religions did not lock them into a rigid caste system. Social and financial mobility required a change of religion. Of course, if you were a rich white Brahmin, why would you convert to a religion which would strip you of your social status and wealth?

Social Evils

Being originally fire worshippers, Hinduism developed the grisly practice of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband (suttee). If she did not willing jump into the fire, she was often thrown into it by the mob gathered to watch her burn to death. Child sacrifices to animal gods such as sacred crocodiles were common until this Hindu practice was criminalized by the British. The ritual murder and burial of travelers by the Kali cult (the thugees) is another example of Hinduism’s inherently demonic nature and inspiration. Other immoral practices of Hinduism included using children as sex slaves in Hindu temples. They not only served the sexual perversions of the priests and gurus but were used as prostitutes to bring in money. The poorest of the poor who often could not afford to keep a new child, left the baby in a temple assuming that the child would have a better life with the priests than with its parents. They doomed their child to a life of pain and misery. The tourist who travels to India’s many temples is often shocked by wall art that depicts sodomy, child sex, orgies and bestiality of the grossest kind. Yet, all this is part of what lies at the core of Hinduism. The same shock is received when tourists see Hindus drinking urine from animals and humans and smearing dung in their hair and on their body. The smell that emanates from the gurus, monks and holy men of Hinduism is enough to warn us that Hinduism is rotten to the core. Why are we beginning our discussion of Hinduism with such ugly topics as racism, the caste system, burning of widows, ritual child abuse and gross immorality? To see the true nature of Hinduism we must study what it produces in those societies where it is the dominant religion. Thus a mere abstract philosophic presentation of Hinduism in the classroom will give a false view of it. Hinduism is far more than a list of abstract dogmas. It is actually a social program that seeks to organize a culture according to Hindu concepts of soul-transmigration, karma, race and caste.

The Philosophic Failures of Hinduism

1.      Hinduism denies the existence of the infinite/personal triune God of the Bible who exists independent of and apart from the universe which He created out of nothing. It is atheistic in this sense.

2.      Hinduism never solved the problem of the One and Many or the infinite/personal dichotomy.

3.      Those Hindus who emphasize the One over the Many, teach Monism (All is One) and pantheism (All is God), erasing any distinction between Creator and creation. “God” is an impersonal infinite force or power which manifest itself as the universe around us. The “things” we see around us do not really exist per se. They are only illusions of the One. This is what the high caste Hindus teach the Westerners who come to India in search of “enlightenment.”

4.      The vast majority of Hindus do not follow the Brahmin doctrine of monism. Instead of emphasizing the One over the Many, they emphasize the Many over the One and practice the most vile forms of polytheism imaginable in which they worship millions of gods and goddesses. It is said that the Hindus worship more gods and goddesses than the total number of Hindus who exist today. They worship snakes, monkeys, elephants, crocodiles, cats, insects and other absurdities.

5.      As a world view, Hinduism fails to answer crucial questions:

a.      Why does the Universe exist as opposed to not existing? Since it cannot answer this question, Hinduism simply denies the existence of the world around us. It is an illusion (maya) or dream.

b.      Is the universe eternal or did it have a beginning? Hinduism has always taught that the universe is eternal. But this has been successfully refuted by modern science. This also exposes an inherent contradiction within Hinduism. If the universe does not exist but is illusionary in nature, how then is it eternal? How can Hinduism speak of the universe going through eternal cycles if the universe does not exist?

c.      Why does the Universe exist in such a form that predictability and science are possible? By denying the existence of the world around it, Hinduism did not develop science and cannot exist why it works.

d.      What is evil? Once again, since Hinduism could not answer this question, it simply denied that evil existed.

e.      Why does evil exist? Hinduism cannot answer this question.

f.       What is man? Hinduism denies that we actually exist.

g.      How can we explain the uniqueness of man? Hinduism cannot explain why man is distinct from the world around him.

h.      Why do we do evil? Hinduism cannot answer this question.

i.       What is sin? Because it does not have a concept of a personal/infinite Creator, Hinduism has no concept of “sin” per se.

j.       How do we obtain forgiveness for our sins? There is no forgiveness in Hinduism. You will have to suffer in the next life for the evil you do in this present life. This answer exposes an inescapable contradiction within Hindu philosophy. If the universe, evil, and man do not actually exist but are only illusions (Maya), then on what grounds does karma exist? If it does not actually exist either, then on what grounds does reincarnation happen?

k.      On what basis can we explain man’s desire for meaning, significance, justice, morals, truth and beauty? Hinduism has no answer to these questions.

l.       How can we provide a sufficient basis for meaning, significance, justice, morals, truth and beauty? Hinduism cannot provide a philosophic basis for any of these things.

Scientific errors

1.      Earth is fixed, don't rotate or revolve.

2.      Sky stand on support.

3.      Even earth got pillars.

4.      Sun Revolve around the Earth.

5.      Horse take the Sun to the Sky.

"He who fixed firm the earth that staggered, and set at rest the agitated mountains, who measured out the air's wide middle region and gave the heaven support, he men is Indra. [Rigveda Book 2 hymn 12 Mantra 2]

"God has firmly fixed that earth with pegs around it” [Yajur Vedas Ch 5 Mantra 16]

"A lamp kept in a windless place does not shake." [Bhagavad Gita Ch 6 verse 19]

VEDAS SAY SUN MOVES AROUND THE EARTH ON A GOLDEN CHARIOT WITH HIS 7 HORSES - As the Vedas Claim that the earth is static and so they tried to prove that the sun moves around the earth. The following statement from the rig Ved tries to clarify it:

1.      "Sun is full of light and knows all the human beings, so his (horses) take him to sky to look at the world" [Rig Ved Book 1 Hymn 50 Mantra 1]

2.      "O, Bright sun, a chariot named harit with seven horses takes you to sky" [Rig Ved Book 1 Hymn 50 Mantra 8]

3.      "O, man, the sun who is most attractive, takes round of the earth, on his golden chariot through the sky and removes the darkness of the earth" [Yajur Ved Ch 33 Verse 43]

There are many unscientific thing or potion in the Vedas and Baghwath Gita. One scientific error is enough to prove it’s not the books of God or completely guidance to whole mankind. "And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish." [Al-Qur'an ch 17 Verses 81]

Conclusion

Hinduism cannot answer the essential philosophic questions that always arise wherever and whenever the human intellect matures. It has been weighed in the scales of truth and have been found lacking. Even more importantly, Hinduism has no concept of a Creator God, the Creation, and in my view if there is a creation then there should be a creator, otherwise how will you explain how there was matter at first for a big bang to happen or where it came from if there was not a creator.

Characteristics	Present in Hindu God’s or Not	Reason
Wisdom	No
Infinitude	No
Sovereignty	No
Holiness	No
Omniscience	No
Faithfulness	No
Love	No
Omnipotence	No
Self-existence	No
Self-sufficiency	No
Justice	No
Immutability	No
Mercy	No
Eternal	No
Goodness	No
Gracious	No
Omnipresence	No
Imminent	No