Confused Scripture, Ignorant God: A Note on Hinduism

If one looks at the facts carefully, one cannot but be embarrased to be a Hindu. Hindusim is a religion, where there's no prophet, no strict rules, no guidelines; one can almost do anything (including beef eating; many Hindus in states such as Kerala eat beef) and yet be a Hindu. It's thus the most permissive of all religions. but then it had not many choice; its trinity consists of an incestuous god, a womaniser god, and a drug-addict god. Thus Hinduism was never forceful enough to expand by force. It's a religion of the cowards; it belonged to a nation who never once invaded a foreign land. What the hell?

However, for a large part of my life, I've been an areligious (or very moderately religious) person, and thus I did not pay much attention to what the basic tenets of Hindusim could be!

But then I came upon a book entitled, "To A God Unknown" by John Steinbeck, which drew me to Rg Veda, the oldest Hindu scripture. And what I noticed in it was that Rg Veda was written by some very confused people. Who else would have written:

"He is the giver of breath, and strength is his gift.
The high Gods revere his commandments.
His shadow is life, his shadow is death;
Who is He to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?"

This crearly shows how confused this religion was!! Unlike most major religions, here the devotee didn't even know to whom to make the sacrifice!!!! They were scared, but they were also confused.

"May He not hurt us, He who made earth,
Who made the sky and the shining sea?
Who is the God to whom we shall offer sacrifice?"

And then, I tried to look what its view about the universe and its creation. What I read was even more socking.

"He, the first origin of this creation,
Whether He formed it all or did not form it,
Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven,
He verily knows it, or perhaps He knows not."

Come on man, what kind of a God you are, if you don't even know how the Universe was formed?

And then I realized why it needs someone from the Western civilization, one who belongs to one of the modern religions, and who won a Nobel prize in Physics, to write a book entitled "The First Three Minutes" to explain that modern Astrophysics is still not able to understand or explain clearly the first moments of the Universe, once it came into being.

This is because it would have never been possible for someone from an ancient and outdated religion, such as Hinduism, to understand that fact, because not only he is confused, but even his God perhaps didn't know how the Universe came into being.

Thus I belong to a religion whose scripures were written by confused people, and whose God was an ignorant fool. Now I know why He smokes pot!

I'm really embarrased now!