You are quite right. This is why India, despite the wonderful potential and greatness of its culture, is mired in the most horrible poverty, racial and religious strife imaginable, and cruelty beyond even my belief and I spent the first six years of my life in my Native Ethiopia in a rural village until my parents moved to the UK. I've been to India, I know. I've seen. I've seen the good, the beautiful and the bad in India and I've noticed that MOST of the sufferings and poverty are preventable and RELIGION is the cause of it.

Here's why. If I suffer, it's my karma and if you help me, you interfere with my karma and I'll just have to suffer in my NEXT lifetime.

Many New-Agers are steeped in this Karma nonsense. It leads, if taken to extremes to a most horrible callousness. I see a child starving in the streets, a woman being raped, or like in Benares the corpse of an old woman floating down the Ganges past thousands of persons and NOBODY even bothered to contact the authorities and I do NOTHING lest I interfere with Karma.

I allow a man to starve to death, a child to suffer hideously, and do nothing because it's better this way. In their next lifetime they'll thank me. What a total LOAD of bullocks!

If India wasn't in the grip of this superstition, it would be more like what it used to be, a warrior society, vibrant, powerful, wealthy and capable of the highest arts, science and philosophy. And now India is a total nightmare for many millions of persons. Calcutta alone has over 200,000 street children who beg, steal and feed on garbage and nothing is done about it by the Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs or the government which can't afford costly social programs and education. I saw a report of feral children actually existing in some parts of India. Like animals, dumped on the streets, living like rats and never socialized, never held, never loved.

That's India, and the IDIOCY of people like that New Age supreme douche Gary Zukav with his sophistry, or Jesus of Nazareth's wussy sheep-like ethic "Resist not evil" leads to this insanity and cruelty when it could be so EASILY prevented.

Do you want a better world, better health for the Earth, the reduction of war, crime? Then do not turn to New Age occultism or Eastern Religions, turn to science and the ethics of humanism which are reality based, not ideologically based.

Idealists fall flat on their face when they encounter realists.

A realistic sane society would not know poverty and very little crime or injustice.

A religious society steeped in fanaticism and superstition like India is a Freak Show of Atrocities.

I heard a Hindu spout the most insane drivel I've ever heard, and this Hindu had a Master's Degree in Engineering from Oxford!!!

Here's what he said "The Holocaust was necessary to get rid of group karma. The Jews were guilty of Christ's crucifixion [how about the Romans you idiot] and accumulated group karma which finally was resolved when Hitler built the death camps."

Oh God, what a load of bloody bullocks to justify the Holocaust in such a totally assinine way!

God help us all if this kind of mentality sweeps the world.