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Alcohol in Hinduism

Thursday, April 1, 2010

It can be noted that almost all of the religions of the world have declared alcohol as something that one must abstain from consuming. The ‘Abrahamic religions’, such as Islam, Christianity and possibly even Judaism, forbid the use of alcohol in varying degrees. I always wondered what the Hindu stance was on the consumption of [...]

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The task that faces us

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Hinduism has always been a geographic faith, tied to South Asia, much like Judaism is tied to the Middle East. When a faith goes abroad, away from its geography of origin, it remains firm in some aspects, and bends in others — we see this in the Jewish Diaspora. But because Hinduism is such a massive [...]

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