Christians; how do you regard Hinduism?

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515. Alphabets exist

As concepts and as sets of physically written symbols. There is more than sufficient evidence to show that that they exists as concepts and as sets of physically written symbols. That was my claim, and if you couldn't understand it or chose to misinterpret it, that's your problem. And "arbitrary" simply means that there is no necessary connection between the symbols and the sounds they symbolize, any more than there is anything inherent in "+" that means "addition". The choice of + to mean addition was completely arbitrary, and any other symbol COULD have been chosen and worked just as well. Why yo keep dragging the "universality" of alphabets into the discussion when I made no claims about it, I can only take as a desperate need for distraction. It is not even inevitable that a culture would develop or adopt an alphabet, no matter how useful it is.

And who gives a rat whether an alien culture would have an alphabet or not? Another thing I made NO claim about. I said that if they did, there would be absolutely no reason to think that their symbols would resemble ours at all, as something that is discoverable (which an alphabet is not) would. Prove to me that an alien culture would have to have a symbol like "A" in their alphabet (or "B" or "Q&quot or stop beating the wrong horse. Because that's all my claim was about, if you could manage to understand it.