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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 481358" data-attributes="member: 3477">This isn't necessarily so. Therefore, I mentioned Hinduism. All attempts to convert Hindus to the Christian faith have failed so far, because they have a totally different view of gods. All gods were created and are no absolute beings. Shiva and his wife Sati can be seen as different gods, or as the male and female aspect of the same god. For his worshipers he is the highest god. The second great god of Hinduism, Devi, Kali or Durga, may be different goddesses or aspects of the same mother god, that's all the same. For worshipers of Kali, she is the greatest god. On the other hand Shiva and Kali may be seen as the male and female aspect of the greatest god. The third great god, Vishnu, has absorbed a lot of different other gods, who are seen as human avatars of him, like Krishna or Rama. For Hindus, Buddha was an avatar of Vishnu <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />. For Vishnu's worshipers, he is the greatest god. In principle all these gods are seen as aspect of the one god. There's no big rivalry between all these gods, so that even in the same familiy, one may follow Shiva, one Devi, and the next Vishnu.For Hindus, Jesus Christ is an avatar of Visnu <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. And if you tell them that there's only one god in the world, they will answer that you are right <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.But I have to admit that this isn't a European line of sight at all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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