>>2136655Thanks for the appreciation! Glad to see that you liked my autistic rant.
By the way, Hindu is a geographic term that literally means "people living near the river Indus". Hinduism is neither a religion, nor a way of life. The current "religion" is a result of centuries of regional myths being combined, bastardized and re-purposed. For example, Krishna was worshipped by the Vrishnis, alongside other minor gods like Balram and Pradyuman. He was touted as an avatar of Vishnu much later, and we have evidence of this due to coins and seals recovered from sites in Gujarat.
Honestly, the religion of "Hinduism" is essentially unrecognizable now. At one point, there wasn't even any sort of idol worship, and people chanted hymns around a sacred fire instead. As for it being a way of life, rituals like corpse-burning etc. predate even the Vedic period.
I wish that we could revert back to the Vedas, and reject all these weird texts that were written by the medieval counterparts of neckbeards who were too hammered to write a cohesive narrative. The closest thing that we have to that is a sect called Arya Samaj, but it is too minor to be of any relevance.
Anyways, I just cope with it by maintaining my own little Indra shrine and daydreaming about him when it rains.
Can I create a religion-slerging thread in /ot/?
(derailing)