1866: Victor Cousin, French Philosopher - Atheism & Hinduism Compatible

 

#Hinduism #Atheism #Blasphemy Victor Cousin 1792 - 1867 was a French philosopher, educational reformer, and historian whose systematic eclecticism made him the best known French thinker in his time. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Cousin https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/cousin-victor-1792-1867/v-2/sections/the-institution-of-spiritualism "The author of the Sankhya philosophy is Kapija . This philosophy pushes independence even to heterodoxy ; it is not only heterodox : the Sankhya of Kapila , in India , where things are called by the right name , is an avowed system of atheism" Book: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy Volume 1 By Victor Cousin · 1866 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Course-History-Modern-Philosophy-1/dp/B00ATYDRYS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Cousin "Estimates state that there are 200 million to 240 million self-identified atheists worldwide" #Atheists and agnostics worldwide: 7% of the world’s population" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism "A 2014 Pew Research Center study found the following retention rates among the world’s religions: #Hinduism retained 80% of those born Hindu, #Islam retained 77%, #Judaism 75%, Evangelical #Christianity 65%, Mormonism 64%, Catholicism 59%, mainline Protestantism 45%, and Jehovah’s Witnesses 34%. What these numbers demonstrate is that sustained belief in one’s birth religion is not guaranteed for everyone. https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/lets-give-the-religious-a-good-alternative/ The Beautiful Bhagavad Gita: "Thus I have explained to you the most confidential of all knowledge. Deliberate on this fully, and then do what you wish to do." https://asitis.com/18/63.html Chapter 12, Verse 10 If you cannot practice the regulations of bhakti-yoga, then just try to work for Me, because by working for Me you will come to the perfect stage. Chapter 12, Verse 11 If, however, you are unable to work in this consciousness, then try to act giving up all results of your work and try to be self-situated. Chapter 12, Verse 12 If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind. Chapter 12, Verse 13 One who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and equal both in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are in agreement with Me-he is very dear to Me. Quranic verses: Surely those who deny Allah and His messengers and wish to make a distinction between Allah and His messengers,1 saying, “We believe in some and disbelieve in others,” desiring to forge a compromise, they are indeed the true disbelievers. And We have prepared for the disbelievers a humiliating punishment. https://quran.com/4/150-1 Whoever seeks a way other than Islam,1 it will never be accepted from them, and in the Hereafter they will be among the losers. https://quran.com/3/85 Surely those who reject Our signs, We will cast them into the Fire. Whenever their skin is burnt completely, We will replace it so they will ˹constantly˺ taste the punishment. Indeed, Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. https://quran.com/4:56 "Indeed, those who disbelieve from the People of the Book and the polytheists will be in the Fire of Hell, to stay there forever. They are the worst of ˹all˺ beings." https://quran.com/98/6 And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits - He will put him into the Fire to abide eternally therein, and he will have a humiliating punishment. https://quran.com/4/14