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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Modern Hinduism precisely changed a lot to compete and stay relevant when other faiths starting to show up in India.

It became much less focused on the polytheism and much more focused on philosophy like Buddhism.

Their own polytheistic beliefs has been shaped to be more similar to the Christian trinity. And many gods are seen as part of one supreme God.

It's just natural evolution of religions. In ancient times religions where about explaining natural phenomena. Thus we had the god of the sea, the god of the sun, the god of the rain, etc.

As those things got explained by science the gods needed to become more philosophical and vague.

Also societies got bigger. You used to have the god of your tribe, and the tribe next to you had another god, and you fight one against the other. Then people lived in empires, with millions of people under an unique faith. To keep them all united a single good and a well structured religion is more useful.

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