Those who permit slaying of animals; those who bring animals for slaughter; those who slaughter; those who sell meat; those who purchase meat; those who prepare dishes out of meat; those who serve that meat and those who eat it are all murderers. - Manusmrithi 5.51
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” — Oscar Wilde
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." — Voltaire
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned: yet we have not advanced one inch towards humanity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support error and roguery all over the earth." — Thomas Jefferson
Many Indians think the term Hindu is a foreign word because it was used by the Persians to identify the people who lived east of the River Sindhu. This is not entirely correct, and the term as a religious and cultural indicator should not be discarded by self-styled Sanatana Dharma purists.
The designator Hindu is a distortion of the river's Sanskrit name Sindhu (called Hindus in Old Persian, from which Indus is derived). In many vernaculars sa is replaced with ha, and Sindhu becomes Hindu. This does not make Hindu a foreign word. The Agama Shastra has reference to Hindu desha demarking the territory of Bharat from Himachala to the Indusarovara (Indian Ocean).
The ancient Greeks referred to "the people of the Indus" as Indoi. The 3rd century bce Greek ethnographer Megasthenes called the land east of the Indus Indica and wrote a fabulous collection of lies about his visit there called Indica.
During Roman times India or Indica became a synonym for Asia and all lands east of the Roman Empire's borders up to China. This use of the term is reflected in modern geographical names like Indo-china and Indo-nesia.
