Christians; how do you regard Hinduism?

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238. That's my point. What some people call belief appears to be a type of knowing to me, not

rational knowing, but knowing nonetheless. They have feelings or apprehensions or experiences of some sort which cause them to "believe" in God. There is something there that they conclude must be "God". If they did not apprehend whatever, if they perceived 0 of whatever it is that people are referring to by means of the word "God", would they believe?

Having any kind of definition of "God" at all seems to have the cart before the horse in the matter of faith, which makes religion, then, somewhat similar to rationalism: x + y + z = God.

Not all persons of faith are like that, but maybe the majority are and that's why one such person, John 20:29, said "Blessed are those who have not seen and, yet, believe . . ." John was expressing an intuitive affirmation of the creative freedom of awareness that admits that it doesn't know everything. Science, by its nature, does not claim that. Religion, the institutionalize and organized form of what we call spiritual apprehension, has a strong tendency to do that and that's called blasphemy.

Yes, I am an agnostic. I strive for a DYNAMIC, i.e. active, balance between knowing and belief, because I hope that neither one biases my awareness.