Sin and reward (divine religions) and karma in Hindu / Buddhist?

This is nonsense and not what I expected from one as intelligent and knowledgeable as yourself. The conceptual system of Karma, reincarnation is one that keeps millions in India in near slavery. It is a system used by the rich, powerful and privileged to justify their oppression of the poor and weak whilst allowing the oppressor to feel they deserved their position by dint of actions taken by a themselves in a former life and that the oppressed masses deserved oppression by the actions their former lives took. It is a great evil in the world. You also have a warped view of sin in Christianity, sin is actions that separate the individual from communion with God, the law is there to help man but it is a means to an end, not, as you imply, an end in itself all the best urban

Your view of karma is as it has been corrupted by the Brahma cast in India to use it as a weapon to oppress the lower casts. This combined with the western view as meaning; "whatever goes around comes around are both faulty. If you do your research you will find that karma is a Sanskrit word that simply means action. There is nothing in the meaning that has anything to do with either reward, punishment or reincarnation. I must admit that I am writing from a Buddhist, not Hindu point of view so my understanding is coloured by my own perceptions and a less than perfect understanding as to what karma means to a Hindu. It is difficult for me to appreciate what sin means to a Christian because, although I was once a Christian I am no longer and I find the whole concept of the need to have a relationship with a god or gods foreign to my nature. I do not view humans as separate from the gods but instead see the Devine as intrinsic and an inimical part of the human condition.

Firstly, my understanding of karma is not as you suggest "...whatever goes around comes around ... [is] faulty." Are you so arrogant and superior that you suppose no westerner can possibly understand the correct notion of karma? Again, that is not what I have come to expect from you. To a Hindu, a Buddhist interpretation of karma may well be viewed as a corruption, indeed the non-personal aspect of Buddhism has been described as such by a Hindu to me. Again, you make a faulty assumption about Christianity, on a par, with those ignorant of say Buddhism that might assume it is about worshipping idols. Your statement that God is not separate from the human condition is intrinsic to Christianity and is indeed a relationship all the best urban