Some used to consider Hinduism a dying religion, but in the last fifty years or so it has begun to explode in the West; sometimes not as full Hinduism but it appears in pieces like in Vedanta and Yoga. Mathilde Ludendorff was a German psychiatrist who tried to warn Whites against Hinduism, saying that its assertion that the world is an illusion was not good for White or anyone's mental health; learn more about her (here). There was someone else who said that the physical world was not real and that was Mary Baker Eddy who founded the religion of Christian Science.
Christian Science used to be the fastest growing religion in America, but now it is one of the fastest shrinking. Why don't Whites (who made up the vast majority of the religion) believe in Christian Science anymore? Because Christian Science puts it neck out on the line and promises the healing of the sick without medicine and the raising of the dead. This obviously does not happen and so people have over the last half century been leaving Christian Science. Also, all the deaths associated with medical neglect in the church, especially of children, has give Christian Science a bad reputation.
However, Hinduism also sometimes offers similar promises as Christain Science. Both Swami Yogananda and Swami Abhedananda promised that Vedanta could not only heal the sick and raise the dead but allow people to live without food and have the ability too materialize and dematerialize matter with their minds (here). Since these things don't happen we can assert that these claims are false, but Hindus are more clever than Christian Scientists and assert it is not Vedanta but Yoga and Siddhanta which give magic powers calls Siddhis. However, Vedanta, Yoga, and Siddhanta are all highly related and correlate with one another; Vedanta may have not offered Siddhi powers, but the concepts of Vedanta lead people to assert these kinds of ideas (here, here, and here). We reject Christian Science because there is no faith healing, and we can reject Hinduism because they have no Siddhi powers.
Another place that both Hindus and Christian Scientists try to get you is on the idea that quantum mechanics proves their religion. Quantum mechanics does not prove Hinduism or Christian Science at all and both cults misrepresent the science and twist it to fit their narratives (here, here, here, and here). Also, both Hinduism (here) and Christian Science both assert freewill, a pattently false and unscientific idea. We reject Christian Science because it is not science, and neither is Hinduism.
Christian Science is the White version of false Hinduism, but as it is White, it is not only more extreme (stating matter is error rather than illusion as in Hinduism), but also braver in that it makes the aquirement of supernatural powers the center of the religion rather than a peripheral benefit as in Hinduism Siddhi powers are not the main objective of Vedanta-Yoga but only a by-product. Actually, in Hinduism Siddhi powers are discouraged from being used, likely to keep it hidden that they don't actually exist; Swami Vivekananda believed spritual healing was possible but discourged it (here). Whites have lived through Christain Science and it is easier to understand, perhaps this has primed their minds to reject Hinduism as well. To learn more about Christian Science and its relationship to Hinduism see my blog on it (here).
The West adopting Secular Koranism would protect Westerners from Hinduism and other forms of open and hidden idolatry.
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