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Matthew Stuckey here and I wanted to make a quick video explaining three common myths of the religion of Hinduism. Three common myths of the religion of Hinduism. Now the number one common myth of Hinduism is that it's a peaceful religion. It's actually not a peaceful religion at all but people commonly think of Hinduism and they think of yoga and meditation and relaxation and they think of these Eastern philosophies or Eastern ways of life or religious systems and they just always assume that they're very peaceful but Hinduism is actually not a peaceful religion at all and I'll give you many proofs of that here. Number one is this in 2018 the Thomas Ruders Foundation voted India the most dangerous country in the world for women. So just a couple years ago they voted the most dangerous country in the world for women. You'll often read reports of people that are visiting various countries for tourism or visiting India for tourism and you'll hear the reports coming back of how much they loved India and the food and the architecture and the culture but the one thing was that they were scared for their life or they were threatened or scared of getting raped or molested and so according to the Thomas Ruders Foundation Hinduism is not a peaceful religion because the vast majority of people in India are Hindus over like 80% of people in India so they're just voted the most dangerous country in the world for women also Gandhi a lot of people don't really know how or who he was murdered by but he was murdered by the RSS political party which is the political party in India which wants to make Hinduism the national religion basically a required religion for everyone to follow and basically Gandhi was murdered for not being Hindu enough. Now look obviously I'm not defending Gandhi in this video you know I'm a Bible believing Christian but I'm just saying I mean Gandhi who many people in this world consider such a peaceful person and promoted peace and he was brutally murdered by the RSS political party simply because he wasn't Hindu enough and because they are the hardcore old-fashioned Hindus that want to make it the nationalistic religion. Another reason you can see that they're not a peaceful religion is just reading about their gods in their sacred scriptures. The Hindus have many sacred scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita Vedas a lot of different ones and the gods that they worship are guilty of rape and murder and I'm including the the prominent gods such as Shiva and Vishnu are guilty of very violent crimes and you see that and see in the Bible it says be holy for I am holy and the Bible commands us to be holy because we have God as our example who is holy. Well here's the thing if the gods that you're worshipping are guilty of rape and murder it should not be shocking that people that are following that as their example could end up being guilty of crimes themselves and Shiva is just by their own admission is a very angry God who's quick to be mad who killed his son in a fit of rage because he didn't realize it was his son Ganesha and then the head was taken off and then Shiva once he found out from his wife he had to find the head of another person he couldn't find a person he found an elephant he took that elephant head and then his son that's where you get the elephant God in Hinduism right because of Shiva being very violent. So there's another example and also because of the fact that over in India it is a very dangerous thing if you're caught eating cow meat in certain locations. Obviously worship cows as gods and what you see is that they're very violent towards people that would end up being eating cow meat and be caught doing it and so you see a lot of violence between the Hindus and the Muslims over there and you know the Hindus will often defend you know the violence of rape and murder and things like that to say well you know what they started it by eating cow meat and they think that they're justified for it. Now obviously there's exceptions to this but those are solid reasons right there that you know in the Thomas Ruders Foundation voted it the most dangerous country in the world for women the RSS political party killed Gandhi for not being Hindu enough the gods they worship are very violent in their scriptures and also eating cow meat is a very dangerous thing to do over there. So Hinduism is not a peaceful religion that's number one. Another big myth of Hinduism is that it's a polytheistic religion. Hinduism is not really polytheistic religion. Now I wouldn't necessarily say it's a monotheistic religion but if I had to choose I would say monotheistic because they actually worship this one presence this one essence this one spirit that's out there and so they worship Brahmin which is this one overall spirit okay but they believe in hundreds of millions of manifestations of that God or of that spirit okay and so they have three main ones they have Vishnu Shiva and Brahma and they consider those like the the big three the Trinity so to speak of Hinduism but those are all just manifestations of the one essence that they believe in and then they believe that there's many avatars of these like for example Krishna is the eighth avatar of Vishnu and so they believe in 300 million gods and really just an innumerable number that God can manifest himself in as many ways as he wants and everything like that but those are really just manifestations of the one true God according to them and so they've been called a pluralistic religion by some people meaning that there is this one essence but there's just this multiplicity of ways to reach that one essence which is very different than the Bible because Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me so Jesus said he was the only way to heaven and so basically what Hinduism is is they believe in this doctrine that's known as oneness that's what we would call it in the Christian realm right and so what the Bible teaches is the Trinity the Bible teaches that there is one God God the Father God the Son God the Holy Ghost okay and these are not manifestations of that one but God is three persons and he's always exist in three persons and he always will exist in three persons Jesus Christ is eternally the Son of God that's what the Bible teaches and so Hinduism on the other hand though they they are a monotheistic religion but what they believe is just this multiplicity of manifestations of that one God but see that's not what the Bible teaches the Bible teaches that God is one but he is also three there's one God and he's always existed in three persons and many people think of Hinduism as being polytheistic that they believe in hundreds of millions of different gods but what they really believe is that those are manifestations of God which that shows you the dangers in a doctrine such as oneness it's a very dangerous doctrine that is creeping into Christian circles and people are giving a pass to it when it's actually a very dangerous doctrine that people are teaching the third myth of Hinduism is that it's the world's oldest religion many people will tell you that Hinduism is an ancient religion or it's the oldest religion it's one of the oldest and Hindus claim that they are the oldest religion in the world but Hinduism is actually a very new very modern religion and truly all the false religions in the world they have a lot of similarities and they kind of take parts from each of these different religions and then kind of go in different directions so it's really kind of the same thing just kind of mixed together and they take out some parts and they add some and things such as that but here's the thing Hindus claim that they follow the Vedas they believe the Vedas are the eternal truth of God and yet the Hindus they don't actually follow the Vedas at all see in the Vedas you see a just a great number of things that are not being done in modern-day Hinduism that the Vedas teach or they'll do the opposite of what modern-day Hindus would say the number one example of that is that in the Vedas and in the ancient Hindu texts you will see that eating cow meat was not considered a problem they didn't worship cows like they do in in today's world and cows have become worshipped because they're an animal that provides a lot of value both with milk and with the meat and even if you choose not to eat the meat the milk is a very valuable source and throughout the Bible you see people worshipping golden calves throughout the book of Hosea just over and over again it talks about the calf you see Jeroboam making these calves that people are worshipping the golden calf in Exodus 32 and so cows have just been the animal that people really worshipped but here's the thing about this Hindus didn't look at it this way you know hundreds and hundreds of years ago right the modern-day Hindus they believe in completely different things in this ancient Vedic religion and so you could look at religions like Zoroastrianism and say well that's actually the old-fashioned Vedic religion whereas Hinduism is just kind of a modern religion that is completely different than what the Vedas teach they don't actually follow the Hindu scriptures or hindered sacred text now there are some things that they have kept in the Vedic religion in their modern-day worship such as this multiplicity of gods and idols and things such as that but there's many things that they don't do anymore and nowadays it's considered this great terrible sin to eat cow meat and it can be a very dangerous thing to do over in India it's considered this very wicked sin and yet in the scriptures you're seeing people and the gods themselves eating cow meat right and so it's actually not an old religion it's actually a very new religion and you know they're the remnants of the old religion the old Vedic religion they don't actually really follow it that much there's only small parts remaining of what that religion was modern-day Hinduism is actually a very new religion it doesn't really follow the scriptures like they claim to so what are the three common myths of Hinduism that people are incorrect about number one people think Hinduism is a peaceful religion gave you four clear reasons why they're not a peaceful religion number two people think Hindus are polytheistic well actually Hinduism actually believes in this doctrine of oneness they actually believe in this one essence and just this in your numerable manifestations of that one essence right just a great number of manifestations but they're not actually polytheistic and number three people think that Hinduism is a very old or ancient religion it's actually a very new religion they actually don't really follow the Vedas at all anyways thank you and God bless