Hinduism

Many people born into Hindu families turn atheists because they find it difficult to believe in Hindu mythology or Idol worship.

If only they had dug deeper, they would have found idol worship was encouraged in Hinduism because it is difficult for a layman to digest the fact that God is without form when everything he experiences in life has a form. Mythology and idol worship are the first steps on the journey, as a person develops interests in religion and continues on this journey, he will later learn about concepts such as mukthi and maya and pick up meditation as a path. In out material world we get stuck in the first step.

Budha did not beleive in Hinduism, but his quest for truth led him to what the core of Hinduism preaches - The journey to God is through the present and meditation is one of the ways to the present


In my view Hinduism is the collection of everything that our early society came across/documented in the search for truth. Parts of it may have missed the mark but parts of it may have hit the bulls eye (we will never know whether the map passed on to us is authentic until we explore the routes marked on it, at least there are routes we can try, so we don't need to recreate a map ourselves).