Dharmic Vs Mono-theistic religion : A logical comparison #5
5) Coverage! for unconverted ancestors, animals and people born before prophets!
For example you converted to follow a mono-theistic religion. You might be saved and go to their heaven after your death. But what happens to your ancestors who were either atheists or followed an other religion. They would have gone to hell right? Is it OK with you to go and enjoy heaven while the parents or grandparents who lovingly brought you up have gone to hell to suffer? Mono-theistic religions only cover those who have converted in their lifetimes. Also animals have no way to get to heaven because they cannot understand anything to convert :-)
What happens to all the people who were born before the religions were born? For example the romans, the egyptians, the greeks, aztecs, ancient indians, chinese. Mono-theistic religions cannot explain the above.
Dharmic religions have universal coverage. Every life form has found itself in that state due to the karma of the consciousness that owns the particular body. Depending on one's karma and what one aspires, they will be born to such circumstances. (Mind it, only if their good karma allows it). For example, if a consciousness has a very bad karma baggage it will find itself in the body of an animal to be slaughtered for food though it aspires something else! A particular consciousness or soul could take up many bodies and follow different religions to satisfy its desires and aspirations. But it is always on the path towards the final goal. Some may need thousands of life times to reach the goal (nirvana or moksha) while some might need very few.
Secondly for those people who were born before the current Buddha or Krishna, they had other avatars / previous Buddhas who could have helped them to to get to nirvana!
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