My question was why the Christians were able to reform their society, when the Hindus failed to do so.
What Reforms were carried out? Why did they have to carry out the Reforms?
What led them into such Situations?
Many Hindus like to claim that Hindu society was much more liberal and inviting to change than that of Abrahamic religions, who have a reputation of being rigid and suppressing any sign of heresy or dissent.
Every Muslim is a Slave of Allah.
Every Christian is a Born Sinner.
Every Hindu is Free to Pursue his path to Self-Realization.
In the above both Desert Ideologies, there is no way you can go out. Apostasy is Death in Islam.
There is no concept of Apostasy in Dharma.
If so, how were Christian Western Europeans - the followers of an Abrahamic religion - able to create a rational, scientific civilization that far surpassed what the Hindus or any one else had created up to that point?
Did Christianity emerge in Europe?
Infact Europeans are people who had lush fertile lands to play with but sucked upto Desert Ideologies!
They had no Civilization to begin with. They neither have. Everything is Robbed, Rehased from Indic Civilization and other Cultures.
Define rational. Define Scientific. Period.
The modern Hindu "reform" movements such as the Brahmo Samaj and Arya Samaj all emerged in the 19th century in the context of European colonialism. The Hindus were shocked at their perceived backwardness in comparison to the Europeans, not only technologically but also (in their minds) socially and intellectually, and this prompted change among them.
That was what the Europeans Propagated to mask their Backwardness from the World.
You are speaking and peddling the Western POV.
You are playing in between the -isms scripted by the Europeans.
It was only during this time that practices such as sati and the caste system were formally denounced by Hindus.
From where did Sati come into Dharmic India? How did it Start?
Allah-oh-Akbar!
Against from the same Deserts where Western Europeans had to rob one religion to show to something to the World!
How Civilized indeed!
It was also during this time that many Hindu texts were re-interpreted, with the view of making them more acceptable by European standards
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They were re-interpreted to fit into the Euro-Centric World view where White Man, Christianity, Europeans are Civilized and those who imitate and worship them are civilizing and the rest of the world uncivilized barbarians waiting to be civilized by the west.
Where the Value System of -isms was propounded to fit the Non-European viewpoint of Europeans as scripted by them.
Where Europeans cannot be questioned as they are the behemoth of civilization according to their peddled view.
Ancient Indian sexual ethics and morals, for example, were discarded by Hindus as being "primitive" and "shameful", and Victorian morals were embraced. Gradually, these changes began shaping Hindu society as a whole.
Western POV: Humans were Cave Dwelling, Tree Eating Stone age Mentality backward and Primitive barbarians. Man became civilized after wearing Clothes, after speaking English, after following Democracy, after accepting Secularism.
Indic POV: Humans were Civilized to begin with. Infact, its the other way. India became less civilized as outside ideologies started infiltrating in India along with their backwardness.
