Remember, you told me that as you respect and love your parents who are Hindus, you claim to be a Hindu???
That means, if one's dad used to be a teacher, the son then must be a teacher to follow his dad's profession, and if one's dad used to steal people's assets, then the son must be a stealer to continue the profession on hereditary basis. Our ancestors in the ancient period used to wear tree leaves to hide body parts, our ancestors used to live in the caves as there was no five star flats, our ancestors used to keep beards as there was no shaving cream and instruments, our ancestors used to treat women as properties as women did not have the idea of individualism and human rights, our ancestors used to practice animism as they were afraid of natural calamities, our ancestors used to kill people who did not look like them as they got scared of aliens, our ancestors used to do many things that we cannot do now.
But my dear SFI member, as you claimed, according to your argument since we respect and love our ancestors, we must blindly follow all of their actions, no?? Porashuno shikhechho to? Logic die bhabo...
You are comparing ones faith to ones profession and personal practices. Tomatoes to oranges. Tell me, did you choose your religion when you were born. Nope. All of us are born into the religion of our parents and we accept that religion almost unquestioningly. Yes, there are people who do convert from their parental religion to other, but even in that case, they first get initiated, ceremoniously or otherwise, into their parental religion, before finally giving it up. Thats how religion works. The ritualistic practices that come with individual religion also get transfused like this. One may choose to practice such rituals or one may not. But the core basis of his parental religion continues to exist in his psyche, until he completely rejects it.
Thats not how profession is transferred to the progeny. Unlike religion, or any other faith, profession is a matter of knowledge, skill and competence. A farmers son may become a farmer, not because his father is a farmer, but because of the fact that having a farmer as his father will expose him to the nuances of farming practices a lot earlier in his life. This may enrich his knowledge in farming, which will go a long way in honing his skills. He will be at more advantage than say, a cobblers son, when it comes to farming. But the cobblers son will be at an advantage when it comes to cobbling. It is this familiarity to his fathers profession, that may lead him to choose his fathers profession. Unlike religion, fathers profession is not an automatic choice for his kid. But then, if he is not competent enough he may end up being something else altogether.
Personal practices also get infused in us almost like faith. Many of our parental practices just find their way in our own personality, without us even being aware of it happening. But then again, it happens with only those practices to which we are directly exposed, not those, which were practiced few generations before and got lost into oblivion, and hence never came in touch with in the first place.
By making such arguments, you have proved once again, you do not understand about things that you pretend to be expert on in this case theology. Your argument of purity is like a two year old, busy filling colour books with crayons. You preach others to be logical and you, yourself prefer to stay insulated from it.
You refer to a CPIM member who claims he is first a Brahmin, then a Hindu, then a communist!!!!
First of all, he must see his face in the mirror to know whether he looks like an Aryan or not? I hope he has money to buy a mirror. He is not an Aryan. He is not a Brahmin. But he claims that!!!
First of all, it was me who referred to the Minister of transport and sports, not Jako. Second, why would I care what he thinks or not. I referred to him, to counter one of your asinine argument on another thread.
Btw, someone who assesses a man, by his looks is called a racist. You are a certifiable one. But, since you are beyond rectification, I will not even bother to correct your notion.
