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Hindus should be wary of joining forces with Western pagans

There are all sorts of movements about where Western Pagans who reject their Christian heritage wish to rediscover their own heritage with the help of the only thriving(??) or rather existing ancient Indo European/Neolithic religion which is Hinduism. One of the problems I have had with Sitaram Goel is that he believed in a  dichotomy of monotheism bad and polytheism good ,thus ironically falling into the same binary mindset of monotheism that he claimed to abhor. Firstly not all all polytheistic religions are born the same. The religions of Assyrians and Babylonians relished bloodshed,cruelty and genocide of their neighbors. Contrary to the idea that all polytheistic religions got along together, there are many instances where they committed cultural genocide on each other. We know so little about Druid culture of Britain because Romans burnt all their literature not Christians. Greeks did the same to the Persians when they burnt Persepolis down to the ground where a lot of Per