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Re:California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on I... by ashtonkem on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:57AM (#23698558)
Right, but often groups are extremely hostile to apostates because apostasy represents an existential threat towards the religion itself. This is why many religions require a formal shunning of apostates, if not explicit punishment. Talleyrand famously had a meal of ice wine and cold meat after being excommunicated in 1791 since good Christians were supposed to deny him “fire and water”; a cute anecdote at the time, but a potentially fatal prescription during medieval or ancient times.

Hearing about a benefit of apostasy, from members of ones former religion no less, is quite surprising.

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Re:California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on I... by devdas on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:29AM (#23699596)
Hinduism has no concept of apostasy. You are free to believe in as many gods as you wish (Atheism is a legitimate school in Hinduism), so changing which god your claim to believe in isn't a big deal.

The perceived threat is from the claim that all other gods are false, which is one of the major factors in the anti Muslim/anti Christian sentiments playing out currently in India.

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Re:California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on I... by naruvimama on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:03PM (#23718060)
Agree with the larger point being made.

However, the attitude of muslims & Christians towards nonbelievers, idol worship and the historical violence and destruction wrought on them plays a bigger role.

A modern western atheist might carry the same "all gods are false", the vast majority of the Hindus will not have any problem with that.

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Re:California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on I... by ashtonkem on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:40AM (#23701850)
Very interesting, I did not anticipate how polytheism would affect such interactions. Thank you.
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Re:California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on I... by garmaine on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:50AM (#23700411)
I would think that is true of atheism too.
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Re:California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on I... by danans on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:16PM (#23706020)
It might, but atheism, or strains of it, are pretty deeply rooted in Indian culture from at least the time of the Buddha, and not seen as much as external threats like Christianity or Islam. I'm a Hindu atheist, but my extended family is far less concerned with that than they would be if I converted to Christianity or Islam.
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