CarolC, with a certain reluctance (it's clear your heart is in the right place) I'm starting to think that Martin Gibson may be partially right about you. Your logic-chopping and peculiar combination of wierd theories which you have laid out above re. Hinduism, is so absurd it made me shake my head in disbelief. It might interest you to know, for example, that the first 'Aryan invaders'reached India's western borders somewhere between 1600 and 1500 BCE. The Buddha lived and preached around 563-483 BCE. It would be therefore rather difficult for the arriving Aryans to 'brutally repress' the Buddhists!

I'm sorry, but I feel I have underlined your basic lack of knowledge enough to gracefully finish here. I'm confident that any fair-minded person who reads through my posts will see that I am no bigot but a liberal struggling with an awkward reality, and that I have argued my point convincingly.

Pip, pip, pip, Beeeeep.