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I can't believe how big the Hindu corpus is. Familiarizing myself with some essential text I am thrown down a rabbit hole of footnotes of dozens of other essential texts, which in turn reference even more essential texts.
Are Christians insecure that they have 1 book while Hindus literally have hundreds?

>> No.19117492

>>19117478
Nipples don't sit like that on a chest

>> No.19117552
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>>19117478
We literally have 800 years of patristics. That alone beats the Hindoo corpus. On top of that, we have the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Hammadi, odes, canticles and prayers from antiquity. And that's just the start of it. We get heaps of literature in the Middle Ages -- St. Photius, Eriugena, St. Anselm, Petrus Abelard, Petrus Lombard, St. Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aqquinas, Bl. John Duns Scotus, Eckhart, Ockham, Cusanus, Ficino, etc. And all of that is before the Reformation. Don't forget all the wonderful paintings, sculptures, architecture, ceramics, engraving, music, novels, poetry, and fables that were composed by multiple peoples spanning from Ireland to Armenia and from Spain to Novgorod. I heard from others that even the most esoteric and powerful Buddhist meditations practices don't even reach the spiritual level of your average Byzantine Sunday mass.

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>>19117552
>I heard from others that even the most esoteric and powerful Buddhist meditations practices don't even reach the spiritual level of your average Byzantine Sunday mass.

>> No.19117586

>>19117552
>We get heaps of literature in the Middle Ages -- St. Photius, Eriugena, St. Anselm, Petrus Abelard, Petrus Lombard, St. Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aqquinas, Bl. John Duns Scotus, Eckhart, Ockham, Cusanus, Ficino, etc.
those are commentaries on the orthodox tradition, ie pretty much commentaries on what is already established through the gospels. In Hinduism what is orthodox as primary texts is far greater in number.

>> No.19117594

>>19117478
>Are Christians insecure that they have 1 book while Hindus literally have hundreds?
They have lots of writing too, why is your first thought when encountering Hindu writings the idea of whether Christians are insecure or not? Posting about that creates needless discord

>> No.19117608

My "religion" is truth. Every text in the world falls under its purview. Because of this association, I am greater than you

>> No.19117610

>>19117492
t. unenlightened nipple owner

>> No.19117617

>>19117586
>In Hinduism what is orthodox as primary texts is far greater in number
If you mean the Vedas, then yes the Vedas are longer than the Gospels. But that's a trite and uninteresting point which doesn't have the same provocative spice that the OP had. Even then there's only like four or so Vedas - Ṛgveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda. That's exactly the number of canonical Gospels.

>> No.19117633

>>19117617
>WAOW 4 VEDAS AND FOUR GOSPELS!!!! WAOOOOOOOOW THAT IS THE SAME NUMBER! THEY HAVE THE SAME NUMBER!!!!! LOOK 4! LOOOK AT IT! IT IS 4! IT IS SIMILAR! WAOW SO SPIRITUAL AND AMAZING THAT THEY BOTH HAVE 4! HOW CAN BOTH HAVE 4 IF NOT BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND PERENNIAL?!

>> No.19117657

>>19117478
The bible is a library not a book.

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>>19117633

>> No.19117660

>>19117594
>t. very insecure

>> No.19117784

>>19117660
Im not though, I’ve read almost all of Shankara in OP’s pic and I love him, but I know better than to take random swipes at other religions

>> No.19117930

>>19117784
if Christians want to be offended let them be. For myself, I only use scathing rhetoric to bring up an interesting comparison between 2 things because that is the mode of this board. If you were to correct every poster for being rude on this board there would be no discussion at all. Plus, the infighting between Jnana and Christianity is usually when this board is at its most interesting and informative so if anything you should be thanking me .

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>>19117552
>I heard from others

>> No.19118108

>>19117478
Before they were poo in loo, they were poo on page

>> No.19118142

>N-no, it's not just one book! It's 66, I mean 73 books! Yes some of them are 3 pages long, so what?
Is this the world's most long-running cope?

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>>19117478
Christianity isn’t capeshit. They didn’t make numerous sequels like marvel movies do. They know when to stop.

>> No.19118438

>>19118209
This is significantly better and more soulful than reading all the genealogies of random Jews that never show up again. "such and such was son of such and such who as you know was the son of so and so"

>> No.19118600

>>19117552
>thousands and thousands of pages of "uhhhh... god did it"
such deep very christer

>> No.19118835

>>19118209
more like Direct-to-DVD shit sequels