What do you know about Jains? My brief familiarity is from politically correct sources. A lot of them seem to be pretty okay with Hitler, however I'm not sure if that's a Jain thing or just and Indian thing. They're a very wealthy caste in India and continue to be wealthy when they relocate to or do business in the United States and have a reputation for building schools and improving communities in Jainist areas of India and opening said schools up even to the non-Jain population.
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Carson Jones
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Ryan Russell
One of their main doctrines is non-violence, ancient Indian religion, probably older than Hinduism
Isaiah Fisher
I'm confused. Are Jains like Brahmins?
Easton James
Brahmins are a social class of teachers and priests in Hinduism. Jainism is a religion separate from Hinduism.
Robert Bailey
Okay, but which race is it mostly suited to? Like how Christianity is for Whites.
Jonathan Diaz
By the best reckoning, it was founded formally around the same time as buddhism. Its certainly a descendant of Hindu philosophy and maybe canon. Its possible, although unlikely, that they were contemporaries. But any thought that Jains predate Hindus is a myth.
Nathaniel Ross
I have never heard of it being practiced by anyone other than an Indian.
Elijah Green
Christianity was reshaped by Europeans from its original form, as it was foreign to their ethos at the beginning. Jainism was not subject to this reshaping as its followers are of the same stock that founded it.
Jason Peterson
Near as I can tell, to call Hinduism the vedic religion is inaccurate. Hinduism may have existed seperately in south India, while Brahmanism existed in northern India. Hindus and Brahmans mixed Hinduism eventually became the dominant, taking the Vedic texts and the traditions. Several hundred years later, a group of scorned brahmans led by Jina Vardhmana found Jainism and its tenets as both a revolt against Hinduism and the overly ritualistic Brahmanism. Theres much confusion over who has the legitamate claims to being the Vedic religion because of linguistic, cultural, and racial differences.
Jose Thomas
Incorrect. Christianity is the embodiment of hellenicism at the time. There is a contextual history to the situation most folks forget or ignore. There is a reason it shit talks Jews while espousing certain greek philosophical concepts.