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Re: Achievement [Re: willie] #17361 - 06/10/02 07:27 AM Edit Reply Quote

Remarkably Wiilie found out the nature of Hinduism, finally. Hinduism has always been a dynamic one and has had many dynamic reformers. It's amazing that a system that didn't change it's basic philosophy could adapt itself time after time. Even in this period India will find an answer to their problems. Maybe India just modernizes in such a way that the conservative forces will have to follow too eventually when outnumbered. This play between progression and conservatism secures a balance. Christianity, though much organized, lost much of its power to a new religion: materialism. Besides, European people were fed up to be so controled by the clergy and church. Decolonization added some more knock downs. The rising of eastern philosophies as reactions to materialism gave still more knock downs. Islam poses a different problem. Willie remarked that many want to live like 1500 years ago. But that's part of a (powerful) problem. State and religion are still not separated. Liberal thoughts and movements are not much encouraged. Modernization is looked upon as destroying the traditional values and imposing foreign ones. Democratization and modernization are yet the huge tasks for the Islam.