Dear Indian brothers and sisters, I’m wondering why do some Indian Hindus still insist it’s necessary that I go to church? So many people keep telling me this. Have we forgotten the history? many Hindus were killed and persecuted by the church. Missionary Christians tried to destroy and erase Sanatana Dharma in India. Now this is where I believe many Hindus are getting it wrong: The conversion of a Hindu to Islam or Christianity doesn’t just mean one less Hindu. It can also mean, one new enemy, because the convert himself begins to consider the Hindus as enemies To me, Hindus can respect other religions without promoting the idea that you can remain in a church or follow Islam and still be a Hindu in the same religious sense. Help this message reach younger Hindus🙏 or Am I missing something? Jai Shri Ram! 🚩 Hare Krishna! 🦚

Oct 28, 2026 · 5:46 PM UTC

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If Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam have different scriptures, theological beliefs, and understandings of God, why do some people insist that Hindus identities are interchangeable with other religion?
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I am a proud Hindu, and I will never be ashamed of my Sanatana Dharma. 🚩🙏 Respecting other religions does NOT mean we must weaken our own identity or accept the idea that Hindus need to visit a church or follow another faith to find peace, truth, or salvation. Sanatana Dharma is a profound spiritual and philosophical tradition with a rich civilisational heritage that deserves to be understood, practised, protected, and passed on to the next generation with pride. We can respect Christians, Muslims, and people of every faith while firmly standing by our own beliefs. True religious harmony must be built on mutual respect and freedom of conscience, not pressure, guilt, or the expectation that one religion must validate another. Our younger generation must learn our scriptures, understand our history, honour our traditions, and take pride in who we are. We should never hate another faith, but neither should we feel compelled to abandon our own identity to prove that we are tolerant. Respect all faiths. Follow your Dharma with conviction. Preserve our heritage. Pass on our values. I stand proudly with Sanatana Dharma. Not out of hatred for anyone, but out of love for my civilisation, my traditions, and my spiritual roots. Jai Shri Ram! 🚩 Har Har Mahadev! 🙏 Hare Krishna! 🦚
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Beautifully explained, brother! 😭🙏❤️ This is exactly the kind of perspective I’m trying to help fellow Hindus understand through my post. 🙏🙏 I sincerely hope this message spreads far and wide, reaching Hindus everywhere, so we can all understand that we can respect Christians, Muslims, and people of every faith while firmly standing by our own beliefs. 🕉️ Jai Shri Ram! Hare Krishna
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those who insist u to follow other religion and also be hindu are not hindus. they r just enemies of hindus and india. first leave everything and read ramayan, mahabharat and bhagwat geeta
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Brother I keep asking myself; Have any Hindu gurus historically taught that someone can continue practising another religion and still be Hindu in the same divine sense? I try to connect what these Hindus mean when they “ye keep going to church everyone is Hindu” For example, if someone wants to learn mathematics, would people tell him to keep studying an entirely different subject and simply call themselves a mathematics student? Am I missing something because this idea is flawed
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You are free of a terrible disease we Hindus in india have. It is called Secularism and it started as a word inserted into the Indian constitution as late as 1976. It is a false secularism and it has corroded our brains and cleverly promoted Islamism and Evangelism.
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Brother, are you saying the problem is secularism itself, or the way some Hindus have interpreted it? 😢🕉️ And most importantly, how do we help these Hindus understand that going to church generally means practising Christianity, and going to a mosque generally means practising Islam? Isn’t that simple or am I missing something?
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No real Hindu will ever tell you that you have to go to church. Those are frauds or at the very least they are very confused people completely detached from their roots.
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But why you are leaving Christianity tell me and going to church as a hindu is not bad. It is upto you as a person whether you want to live in Hinduism or not. Yes you are right in goa this has happened even our indian govt is trying best to make all Christians to hindu bug you please don't leave Christianity ok by coming across all these things ok don't question your faith please if possible then request a our indian people to comeback to Hinduism that's it but don't let yourself leave ok
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Instead the Indian Christians and Muslims must be taught the history and encouraged to do ghar wapsi! If not they can go to hell!
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Because of the education system they made and brainwashed us as children in the name of secularism. Most of us realised what Congress party did to India to the young minds at the beginning stage of independence. This is the result you are seeing now.
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Christianity and Hinduism are incompatible. Yahweh demanded blood sacrifice, while Krishna condemned it. The Christian god is a demon. Don't listen to these stupid New Agers pretending to be Hindus.
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Those people never read any shastra my brother. They will tell you every religion are same. All path leads to God and what not. You keep it brother Jai Bajarang Bali.
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I believe in this strongly and wonder how such gory past can even be revered.
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Goa Inquisition is one of the dark era fir Hindus, under barbarism brutality atrocities by Portuguese and Church people. But the Indians except few are unaware of this. St Xavier was considered as saviour but he was not.
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Who asks you to go to Church? There is no need - not only coz of your faith, also coz of no answers given by church about Life, Liberation and salvation, and how Dharma actually shall be, Churches are only like business running from different lenses.
You're not missing anything else. Whatever you told that is True. 🙏
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Very well said. Yeahbsolutely correct in ur understanding & views. That is d basis of Vedik/Sanātana Dharma. No baptism/circumcision. Every soul born is naturally so in Vedik/Sanātana Dharma. Baptise/circumcise & certain types of religious beliefs gets enforced.
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That’s because the Indian state since British times ensured that Hindus are not trained in their religion and it only became worse since so called “independence “.
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Please don’t listen to such self hating Hindus.
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Those who suggest you to go to church after you have chosen to believe in Hinduism are Hindus for namesake. There are many Christians who keep Hindu names and use it as means to convert others
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Many Hindus suffer from Intergenerational Stockholm Syndrome
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Hindus suffer from stockholm syndrome
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Because they think to be broad hearted one hasbto be submissive to the extent of digging ones own grave. One cannot be both religious and secular at the same time
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Those who tell you that have been brainwashed and some want to display their secular credentials. Do what your heart tells you to do.
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Only converted chutiyas still hiding behind a hindu name would suggest that. You can't even be friendly with them. Once they get comfortable they'll start brain washing you.
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200 yrs of british colonisation and Macaulay education system still continues today, that's why.
Brother, Personally for me - the adage - The world 🌍 is a Playground works for me. As Krishna saysBasically all emotions can be divided into pleasant and unpleasant . I prefer the former. So I personally dont keep any division. Each to their own Karma. I play by the character
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Nothing like that is required. God is inside you on how you treat your body, living beings around you be it fellow human or animal or inspect or bird or plants or tree and see the truth from those interactions, sound, the omni present power around you, inside you & in space. Temple is for those who can't understand these, and those who wants to see something to believe in God. God doesn't exists to punish you or order u to harm you or others around you, nor someone who expects u to go periodically or in regular intervals. If u understand all these, u don't even have to go to any temple, let alone church or other places if worship.
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You can be anyone and follow sanathana dharma. No strings attached.
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The irony is that still this nation is stood on its root of Hinduism jist with grace of God and saints. Otherwise you can what happened in Iran and other asian countries in the history.
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"I’m wondering why do some Indian Hindus still insist it’s necessary that I go to church?" Really? This is nuts! Don't ever go back to being schooled to h@te.
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Imo anyone who worship a god who says,the one who do not worship me will go to hell is not god worth worshipping so I always avoid them,their worship place and practices And for the people who are saying you should go to church are just living in a fantasy land. Just ignore it.
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They are not Hindu. It is either Christians & Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh or India who does these kind of ANTICS. Pakistanis are very popular doing this. They have BOT farms also
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