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Originally Posted by NoOne
The term "Hindu" is meaningless. It simply denotes someone that lives beyond the Indus river, irrespective of religion (from a Western perspective).
The correct term should be "Dharmist", someone that takes their eternal spiritual duty and calling seriously. Anyone who acknowledges and worships the gods is a Hindu really, basically anyone who is a polytheist and doesn't believe in the inane idea of "One God".
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Still, whether we like it or not, we're stuck with it, as it's been in use for so very long. When driving along a road, and you see a different looking building, if you said it's a Dharmist temple, nobody would understand, or if you referred to yourself as a Dharmist, same thing. I'm personally comfortable with the term Hindu merely because it's the commonly used term for Sanatana Dharma.