Caste systems
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Also: original caste system, castes.
The original caste system of India was based on color, as was that of early Egypt. 70:8.11
The caste system failed to save the Aryan race, but it did succeed in perpetuating the Brahmans, who, in turn, have maintained their religious hegemony in India to the present time. (94:2.1,5)
Gautama made a determined but unavailing fight against the growing caste system. 94:7.2
Said Jesus: “Though human beings differ in many ways, the one from another, before God and in the spiritual world all mortals stand on an equal footing”. 133:0.3
caste systems was instituted by Aryans in India to save racial identity 79:2.6 79:4.5-9
castes purchased the enhancement of social stability but diminished personal initiative and prevented social cooperation 70:8.13
Caste systems and social levels are vestigial remnants of olden prohibitions. 89:1.6
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- God is no respecter of persons 133:0.3 — 2 Ch 19:7; Job 34:19; Sir 35:12; Acts 10:34; Ro 2:11; Ga 2:6; Ga 3:28; Eph 6:9; Col 3:11.
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