Conundrum of American Prosperity - An Explanation for the Believers
Conundrum of American Prosperity - An Explanation for the Believers
There is a large section of people around the world who believe that Americans don't deserve their high standard of living. While capitalism and to an extent imperialism can explain the current situation, it continues to confound believers who find it contradictory. After all, American lifestyle is amoral, hedonistic and against everything that a good follower of God is advised to do. Yet, they are the ones who enjoy the best the world has to offer ! Pious followers in India and other places suffer a wretched life of misery aggravated daily by their leaders. They continue to follow the 'good path' yet find themselves falling deeper into chaos, corruption, lawlessness and more importantly a valueless society. The population continues to rise and the situation gets worse. Why!
How could one go about explaning? This apparent contradiction has led many to view their religion with suspicion and believers have given in to disbelief. Many of the 'fortunate ones' who got to the American shores have dropped their religious beliefs like hot potatoes! Hindus have started eating beef without batting an eyelid or thinking twice about the three hundred thirty million Gods they are displeasing while Muslims have started drinking. Its even given rise to innovative thinking like 'Happiness is God. Pleasure makes me happy. Pursuit of pleasure is pursuit of God!' Vedic notions like 'Aham Brahmasmi' have been interpreted as 'I am the world. World is God. I am God. I make the rules, lets drink'! None of these explain the prosperity in America (or other western nations) and wretchedness in India, Africa and other places where people are so poor they cannot even imagine the sins that their more prosperous western colleagues commit everday!
But, there is a nice, succinct, cogent explanation of the apparent contradiction. The religions are not wrong, you need to see the picture in its entirety. According to Hinduism and other religions, man's actions in one birth are responsible for his situation in the next birth - that is the key to the conundrum. It can explain the economic and demographic trends!
In the last several centuries, the number of people who have been immoral, violent, hedonist and just plain crooked has exceeed the number of people who are not! Clearly, all of these people deserve to rot in hell or spend their next lives in places that cannot be very different from hell! And that perfectly explains why the populations of Africa, China and India are uncontrollably large and growing! It is the burden of last century's sinners from around the world! The people in Europe enjoy the highest standard of living, no wonder their numbers are falling. After all these are those few from all over the world who followed the high moral ground in their previous lives and got to spend their next birth (life) in Europe!
We have a unified theory that is based on religion and is empirically supported by the current social and demographic trends! Touche'
There is a large section of people around the world who believe that Americans don't deserve their high standard of living. While capitalism and to an extent imperialism can explain the current situation, it continues to confound believers who find it contradictory. After all, American lifestyle is amoral, hedonistic and against everything that a good follower of God is advised to do. Yet, they are the ones who enjoy the best the world has to offer ! Pious followers in India and other places suffer a wretched life of misery aggravated daily by their leaders. They continue to follow the 'good path' yet find themselves falling deeper into chaos, corruption, lawlessness and more importantly a valueless society. The population continues to rise and the situation gets worse. Why!
How could one go about explaning? This apparent contradiction has led many to view their religion with suspicion and believers have given in to disbelief. Many of the 'fortunate ones' who got to the American shores have dropped their religious beliefs like hot potatoes! Hindus have started eating beef without batting an eyelid or thinking twice about the three hundred thirty million Gods they are displeasing while Muslims have started drinking. Its even given rise to innovative thinking like 'Happiness is God. Pleasure makes me happy. Pursuit of pleasure is pursuit of God!' Vedic notions like 'Aham Brahmasmi' have been interpreted as 'I am the world. World is God. I am God. I make the rules, lets drink'! None of these explain the prosperity in America (or other western nations) and wretchedness in India, Africa and other places where people are so poor they cannot even imagine the sins that their more prosperous western colleagues commit everday!
But, there is a nice, succinct, cogent explanation of the apparent contradiction. The religions are not wrong, you need to see the picture in its entirety. According to Hinduism and other religions, man's actions in one birth are responsible for his situation in the next birth - that is the key to the conundrum. It can explain the economic and demographic trends!
In the last several centuries, the number of people who have been immoral, violent, hedonist and just plain crooked has exceeed the number of people who are not! Clearly, all of these people deserve to rot in hell or spend their next lives in places that cannot be very different from hell! And that perfectly explains why the populations of Africa, China and India are uncontrollably large and growing! It is the burden of last century's sinners from around the world! The people in Europe enjoy the highest standard of living, no wonder their numbers are falling. After all these are those few from all over the world who followed the high moral ground in their previous lives and got to spend their next birth (life) in Europe!
We have a unified theory that is based on religion and is empirically supported by the current social and demographic trends! Touche'
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