Compare Hinduism And Idolatry

In a Christian household it is not uncommon for people to wake up and read their bible and pray as an act of worship to God, but in Hindu households they have a different way of worshiping. Some Hindus will have an image in their house which they will wake up in the morning and honor as a form of worship to a specific God. This act of worship is detested by Christians as well as other monotheistic religions. They call it idolatry. Although it is looked down upon by monotheistic religions idolatry is one of the main forms of worship for Hindus. When someone in a monotheistic religion sees an image that is worshiped they see it as if that person was worshipping a statue of Jesus or Allah which is considered a sin, or wrong, to them because that object is not what is holy, the person it is created to look like is holy. The statue, although it may be seen as important or even sacred, is manmade and therefore not holy. These people views religious objects as important but not necessary for their religion because to them they are material objects and what they stand for is what matters more so than they do. An example of this is that someone might have an attachment to their specific bible, but if it were to be destroyed it

Idolatry is no longer the worship of some statue that a person decided was holy, but rather the worship of a God through a vessel which the God once or is still inhabiting. The Hindu Gods and Goddesses choose to come down and possess these images so that Hindus can better worship them with all their senses and love them more through their understanding of seeing and touching a representation of their God. The idea of being on such a personal level with a God might still seem absurd to someone who is monotheistic, but to a Hindu it is absurd to have anything