Saying one practices Hinduism is more like saying EA is part of western enlightenment tradition. It’s an entirely different cultural frame, which has many different philosophical worldviws from atheistic to theistic within it. Hindus even claim buddha as one of their own. The word hindu itself comes from river located in North West of India, so they clustered bunch of philosophical positions together which were reminiscent of that place.
Besides labelling one thing as religion and doing away with it is a lazy thing to do, there are various practices within it which may or may not be good or accurate which can be tested for.
I personally don’t buy into a lot of hindu rituals, astrology etc. Personally I treat their claims as either metaphorical or testable. I think a lot of ancient “hindu” philosophers would be in the same camp as me, I just think a lot of their disciples didn’t take their epistemology to their logical conclusion but got misguided by other cultural memes like absolutism,mysticism etc.
I personally don’t buy into a lot of hindu rituals, astrology etc. Personally I treat their claims as either metaphorical or testable. I think a lot of ancient “hindu” philosophers would be in the same camp as me
Saying one practices Hinduism is more like saying EA is part of western enlightenment tradition. It’s an entirely different cultural frame, which has many different philosophical worldviws from atheistic to theistic within it. Hindus even claim buddha as one of their own. The word hindu itself comes from river located in North West of India, so they clustered bunch of philosophical positions together which were reminiscent of that place.
Besides labelling one thing as religion and doing away with it is a lazy thing to do, there are various practices within it which may or may not be good or accurate which can be tested for.
I personally don’t buy into a lot of hindu rituals, astrology etc. Personally I treat their claims as either metaphorical or testable. I think a lot of ancient “hindu” philosophers would be in the same camp as me, I just think a lot of their disciples didn’t take their epistemology to their logical conclusion but got misguided by other cultural memes like absolutism,mysticism etc.
I do the same and so do many Hindus.