Comparative religion
Traditions read against each other rather than in isolation.
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Hinduism vs Christianity Which is More ProbableIn a formal debate hosted by Arjuna (Alex Gallagher), philosophy student Amos Wollen argues that anthropic reasoning and the problem of evil make 'mere Hinduism' (henotheism, karma, infinite reincarnation) more probable than Christianity, while Catholic John Buck counters that karma is morally paralyzing, infinite reincarnation is logically incoherent, and only Christian atonement resolves guilt.Amos Wollen, John Buck · Debate · 1h 58m· May 2024
The Eternality of Souls in Christianity and VedantaIn a clipped dialogue, a Christian and a Vaishnava agree souls survive death and will return to flesh — resurrection or reincarnation — while the Vaishnava clarifies that a soul's eternality means existing outside material time, not enduring through infinite time. · Lecture · 1m· Jul 2023- Comparing Christianty and Vedantic Traditions Dr. Graham M. SchweigHarvard-trained Vaishnava scholar Graham M. Schweig argues to host Alex Gallagher (Arjuna) that the personalism-impersonalism debate runs inside Christianity and Vedanta alike, that Shankara's Mayavada is better named 'mithyavada' — a world-denying delusion refuted by its own performative contradictions — and that interreligious unity lies in the practice of dialogue, not in the perennialist claim that all religions teach the same thing.Graham M. Schweig · Interview · 2h 9m· Jul 2023
- Reacting to Some Extreme Christian IdeasIn a solo video essay, Arjuna Gallagher reacts to Christian preachers who call yoga demonic and consign Hare Krishnas to hell, answering that Western yoga is mere 'Vedic calisthenics', Hindu devas are analogues of Christian angels rather than demons, Chaitanya Vaishnavism is itself monotheistic, and a personal God — unlike a vending machine — cares about intentions. · Lecture · 16m· Jul 2023
How Christians Believe in KarmaIn a clipped exchange, a Christian guest tells Arjuna that Christianity already affirms karma's core — Saint Paul's 'you reap what you sow' — while insisting it is not ironclad, since repentance brings God's mercy. · Lecture · 1m· Jun 2023
How Christianity Differs from Hare Krishna with Graham M. SchweigVaishnava scholar Graham M. Schweig, questioned by host Arjuna and Christian co-panelist Samuel, argues that religions cannot be equated — Trinity is not the Hindu triad and Jesus is not Krishna, because each tradition's meaning comes from its own axis and rasa — while defending a charitable 'raw theism' reading of Shankara against both the Mayavada charge and Christian divine simplicity.Graham M. Schweig, Samuel Watkinson · Lecture · 2h 7m· Aug 2022
Finding the Same Essence Bhakti in World Religions David Bentley Hart & Graham SchweigDavid Bentley Hart and Graham Schweig, moderated by Arjuna, argue against the modern 'separate religions' model — Hart contending religion is one universal human virtue with local schools and degrees of revelation, Schweig that comparing traditions should be sharing (the root sense of bhakti) rather than competing, with both finding direct harmonies between Krishna bhakti and Christian mystical eros.David Bentley Hart, Graham M. Schweig, Samuel · Lecture · 1h 38m· Aug 2022
Q & A with Chaitanya Charan DasArjuna and Chaitanya Charan Das field viewer questions from their Jordan Peterson episode and argue that the bhakti tradition answers standard Western objections — blind faith, the problem of evil, idolatry, and arbitrary grace — differently and better than mainstream Christianity does. · Lecture · 2h 21m· Jun 2022
Discussion with Dr. Howard Resnick on Eastern and Western PhilosophyHarvard-trained Vaishnava scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) argues against host Arjuna's academic clichés that the real East–West divide in philosophy is historical, not intellectual: Europe's murderous theological fanaticism drove thinkers into secularism, while India's freer debate culture never needed to split philosophy from theology.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 1h 27m· Jan 2022
A Basic Introduction to Krishna Consiousness with Dr. Graham M. SchweigVaishnava scholar Graham Schweig argues to host Arjuna that the essence of every religion is bhakti — love shared through dialogue — so proselytism, hell-based exclusivism, and skeptical demands for proof of God all misunderstand what religion actually is.Graham M. Schweig · Lecture · 2h 3m· Nov 2021
Interfaith Discussion on Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism) @doooovidDovid Kelton lays out classical Lurianic Kabbalah — tsimtsum, four worlds and ten sefirot, reincarnation, radical impersonalism — while Arjuna maps each doctrine onto Gaudiya Vaishnava parallels and differences, converging on personalism versus impersonalism as the real fault line between the traditions.Dovid Kelton · Lecture · 1h 49m· Jul 2021
David Bentley Hart & Ranchor Prime Discussion Our Relationship With GodEastern Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart and Vaishnava author Ranchor Prime, hosted by Alex Gallagher, argue that relationship with a personal God is the shared core of Christian and Vedic tradition — clashing sharply over whether Christianity retains an integral teaching of the eternal spirit.David Bentley Hart, Ranchor Prime · Lecture · 1h 49m· Jun 2021
The Relationship Between Christianity and Other Religions with David Bentley HartDavid Bentley Hart argues to Hare Krishna host Arjuna Gallagher that every tradition's claim to exclusive, literal, complete revelation — Krishna consciousness's included — is fundamentalism, while defending total universalism against William Lane Craig's free-will 'particularism' and locating real interreligious unity in a shared metaphysical horizon rather than in any one creed.David Bentley Hart, Samuel Watkinson, William Lane Craig · Interview · 2h 26m· Dec 2020
Richard Dawkins' claim that religions contradcit one another debunkedIn a translated live lecture answering Richard Dawkins' claim that the world's religions mutually contradict, the speaker (credited to the channel's host in source metadata) argues that religions disagree only on dogmatic-historical claims while converging philosophically on God, soul, and nature — and that Rupa Goswami's greatest-conception principle turns comparing them into a rational, quasi-scientific inquiry. · Lecture · 23m· Sep 2019- Richard Dawkins' claim that religions contradcit one another debunkedIn a translated live lecture answering Richard Dawkins' claim that the world's religions mutually contradict, the speaker (credited to the channel's host in source metadata) argues that religions disagree only on dogmatic-historical claims while converging philosophically on God, soul, and nature — and that Rupa Goswami's greatest-conception principle turns comparing them into a rational, quasi-scientific inquiry. (Duplicate upload of the same lecture; transcription differs trivially.) · Lecture · 23m· Sep 2019