Anti-Hindu Blog?

Recently I found out that some Yahoo group called"'hinduinfo" listed my blogs in their section of anti-Hindu blogs, websites, books, etc. See the link below to check the posting,

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hinduinfo/message/3908

Honestly speaking, I was not shocked to read this as I never expected any so-called religious groups or organizations to like or even appreciate my blog. However, I am glad that after reading it some people are feeling uncomfortable. I know that they don't like even a tiny bit of criticism or uncomfortable questions directed at them. This particular comment has mentioned a couple of my posts related to Ram and Krishna as an attempt by me to demonize these characters.

http://selfrealization-vinay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/when-yash-called-krishna-thief-and.html

http://selfrealization-vinay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/ram-great-king-and-bad-husband.html

The first post is not at all related to Krishna. First, I don't know why some people think that this post is about Krishna. The post is about one particular incident where two people with totally different perceptions or understandings about the same person thought that they both were right. They both have their own reasons for their beliefs and it's their choice the way they want to look at a particular situation or person. Many times, there is not a single right or wrong answer to some questions, but many people don't like to believe this. Many of us have totally different opinions about many things and that is why we discuss and argue over many points. That's why life is fun, that's why we read, learn, and educate ourselves so that we can get more information and form our opinions based on that information. We can have different opinions and still live peacefully and love each other, and we can agree to disagree without having any effect on our relationships. This was the main intention behind sharing that incident, but as usual, some people only read what they want to read, they consider that post as an attack on Krishna and Hinduism. They are free to derive their own meaning from this. This is also a perfect example of two people deriving totally different meanings from the same article.

The second post is about some incidents in Ram's life where I feel that he failed to perform his duties as a husband. In those times one of the duties of the husband was to protect his wife and stand by her whenever she needed his support and I feel Ram didn't do that on some important occasions where his wife needed his support. Maybe he excelled as a King on all levels and was a very good and obedient son but according to me, he failed as husband and father. This is what I wrote in my post. There was no mention of any religion or no attack on any faith, but as I said some people read whatever they want to read.

I choose the topics which I feel are socially or personally relevant to me. The topics cover a vast range from movies to spirituality and politics. The blog is not about any specific religion or any specific subject, it's about my thoughts and views. I share some posts from my blog on the Speakingtree forum on the Times of India website and there also many people from different religions like Christianity or Islam comment on many of these posts and try to defend their religion or their customs based on the subject of my post. I am surprised that most of these religions feel offended by some of these posts. These people try to defend each and everything mentioned or practiced (past and present) in their religion. The core belief system and basic foundation of all religions are the same. All present-day organized religions work on similar principles and that's why they all feel threatened by any doubts or uncomfortable questions. 

I am actually thankful to all these people for their help and encouragement. This means that I am hitting the right targets. The aim of these posts was to attack or criticize some of these customs and rituals that target particular genders or sections of society and discriminate against them. Believe it or not, some people want to preserve these discriminatory customs and rituals in the name of religion, culture, or traditions. We need to deal with these people. Question wherever we see an attempt to justify any of these discriminatory rituals. Such groups are part of our society and I don't mind interacting with them. This particular group warns its members to protect their children from such blogs and books, but I encourage readers of my blog to go and visit such groups and read their posts, and check how scared these groups are about anything that doesn't match with their line of thinking. I don't moderate any comments on my blog, whether comments agree with my views or not doesn't matter, all of them are published and welcomed. To date, I deleted only one comment because it was totally unrelated to the post and was an attempt to advertise some drug. Except for this one comment all of them are on the blog for anyone to read. I don't believe in filtering the knowledge or information and showing only one side of any issue to my readers, this is not the purpose of my blog. It is an anti-ignorance blog, not anti-religion or anything else.

Thanks for reading and please share your views on this topic.

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