How would you compare the top 3 religions: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism?
I will just write the Gist of Christianity, Islam and Hinduism and leave the judgement to the readers.
CHRISTIANITY:
According to the Christian God Yahweh, Sin is hereditary and is passed down to all humanity, as Adam sinned by eating the apple. So God created his own Son Jesus and made his Son hang on a Cross to wash away the Sins of all humanity. But only those who believe in what Jesus did will be saved and go to Paradise, while the rest will be barbequed in Hell forever.
Christian God and his son Jesus are NOT as peaceful as is commonly believed.
Deuteronomy [2:34] God: And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.
Isaiah [13:15-16] God: Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives raped.
Matthew [10:34] Jesus: "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but a sword."
Matthew [10:35–36] Jesus: I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Also, as only Men have souls, only they can go to Paradise. This is because there is not even 1 verse about women going to Paradise. So they are just for companionship and pleasure.
ISLAM:
God is Allah. Last prophet is Muhammad. Allah wants every human to be muslim. So it orders muslims to wage JIHAD (Holy War against non-muslims) till the whole world becomes Islamic. The one who die fighting will go to Jannah and have sex with Houries forever who will always remain virgins.
Sahih Bukhari [2946]: Muhammad: " I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' and whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' his life and property will be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his accounts will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him.)"
Sahih Bukhari [2785]: Narrated Abu Huraira: A man came to Allah's Messenger and said, "Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward)." He replied, "I do not find such a deed." Then he added, "Can you, while the Muslim fighter is in the battle-field, enter your mosque to perform prayers without cease and fast and never break your fast?" The man said, "But who can do that?" Abu- Huraira added, "The Mujahid (i.e. Muslim fighter) is rewarded even for the footsteps of his horse while it wanders bout (for grazing) tied in a long rope."
The Tafsir of Quran 55:72; Book of Sunan, Vol IV, Chapter 21, Hadith 2687 : These black-eyed beauties will be true virgins, ever violated “by man or jinn” (genie). And, miraculously, each of the millions of times a Muslim man in Paradise copulates with them, they will be again virgin. They will remain eternally youthful and fresh.
If the non-muslims don’t convert, they can be killed, their properties plundered, their women and children enslaved and the women used as sex-slaves. The only way out is for non-muslims is to accept subjugation and pay Jizya (religious tax).
Quran [33:26-27] Allah: And He caused you to inherit their (non-muslims) lands, and their houses, and their riches, and a land which you had not trodden (before). Some ye slew and ye made captive (enslaved) some. And Allâh is Able to do all things.
Killing, enslaving them and their women, plundering, looting and seizing everything that belongs to non-muslims is halal in Islam.
Quran [9:29] Allah: Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
Anyone who denies Muhammad is an apostate and should be killed. Women are like domestic animals and most of them are believed to go to Hell along with non-muslims and be roasted in HellFire forever.
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301; Sahih Bukhari 7:62:124-126: Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri: Once Allah's Messenger went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) of `Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women)." They asked, "Why is it so, O Allah's Messenger?" He replied, "You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you." The women asked, "O Allah's Messenger! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?" He said, "Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?" They replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?" The women replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her religion."
Sahih Bukhari 1:9:493: Narrated 'Aisha- The things which annual prayer were mentioned before me (and those were): a dog, a donkey and a woman. I said, "You have compared us (women) to donkeys and dogs. By Allah! I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in (my) bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I disliked to sit and trouble the Prophet. So, I would slip away by the side of his feet."
Tabari, Vol IX, p.113: Women should be treated well, as they are [like] domestic animals ('awan).
HINDUISM:
God is beyond Time, Space and Causation, Infinite, Eternal, Formless, Genderless, Omnipresent, Omniscient etc. The whole Creation is a manifestation of this Parabrahm, including Gods, DemiGods, animate & inanimate beings. So everything is Divine and has the capability to attain Moksha (realize Parabrahm).
The Vishnu Purana [Book1:Ch4:p29]: Hail to thee, Spirit of the Param Atman (Supreme Spirit); to thee, soul of soul; to thee, who art discrete and indiscrete matter; who art one with the elements and with time. Thou art the creator of all things, their preserver, and their destroyer, in the forms, oh Lord, of Brahmá, Vishńu, and Rudra, at the seasons of creation, duration, and dissolution.
Bhagavad Gita [13;13-18]: Sri Krishna to Arjuna: [It is] the Supreme Brahma having no beginning, who is said to be neither existent nor non-existent; whose hands and feet are on all sides, whose eyes, heads and faces are on all sides, who dwells pervading everything in the world, who is possessed of all the qualities of the senses (though) devoid of the senses, without attachment (yet) sustaining all things, without attributes (yet) enjoying (a) all attributes, without and within all creatures, immobile and mobile, not knowable because of (his) subtlety, remote yet near, undistributed in all beings, (yet) remaining as if distributed, who is the sustainer of (all) beings, the absorber and the creator (of all); who is the light of all luminous bodies, who is said to be beyond all darkness; who is knowledge, the Object of knowledge, the End of knowledge and seated in the hearts of all.
Srimad Bhagvatam [Canto1:Ch3:26]: Maharishi Suta: The incarnations of the Lord who appeared from the ocean of goodness are as innumerable as the thousands of streams we have from inexhaustible sources of water.
Srimad Bhagvatam [Canto2:Ch6:39]: Sri Brahma: He, the Primordial Original Personality, millennium [Yuga] after millennium [Yuga] creates within Himself, by Himself, His Self [the universe] maintains Himself [for some time] and absorbs [Himself again].
Every human is governed by Karma (conduct) and Guna (qualities) and has to follow (Dharma). Good Karma gives you freedom from Rebirths and bad Karma will make you keep coming back and endure more pain and suffering until one learns the right lesson.
Dharma is explained as below:
Srimad Bhagvatam [Canto11:Ch19:33-35]: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Nonviolence, truthfulness, not coveting or stealing the property of others, detachment, humility, freedom from possessiveness, trust in the principles of religion, celibacy, silence, steadiness, forgiveness and fearlessness are the twelve primary disciplinary principles called yama.Internal cleanliness, external cleanliness, chanting the holy names of the Lord, austerity, sacrifice, faith, hospitality, worship of Me, visiting holy places, acting and desiring only for the supreme interest, satisfaction, and service to the spiritual master are the twelve elements of regular prescribed duties called niyama. These twenty-four elements bestow all desired benedictions upon those persons who devotedly cultivate them.
Mahabharata,Shanti Parva, 60:7–8: Truthfulness, to be free from anger, sharing wealth with others, forgiveness, procreation of one’s children from one’s wife alone, purity, absence of enmity, straightforwardness and maintaining persons dependant on oneself are the nine rules of Dharma of persons belonging to all the varnas.
Women should be treated better than men, as fame and fortune leaves the family where women are ill-treated.
Manusmriti 3.55. Women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands, and brothers-in-law, who desire (their own) welfare.
Manusmriti 3.56. Where women are honoured, there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honoured, no sacred rite yields rewards.
Manusmriti 3.57. Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon wholly perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers.
By
K. Jagadeesh
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