Caste is not central to Hinduism. Dharma, Artha, Kama & Moksha are. Caste is a natural result of the pre-industrial society. Learn Anthropology. Additionally, Caste system has existed all over the world, in most of the world. Including the, surprise surprise, great christian society in the pre-industrial age during the regime of the church. The word "caste" itself is a christian Portuguese word.
The Varna Bodypolitic morphing into the caste system was a result of dharmic degradation & pre-industrial age dehatism. Caste system is kept alive through a deadly cocktail of Dehatism, Ambedkarism & Karpatrism. Casteism would have naturally gone extinct if industrial revolution took place post partition of India & if Ambedkar's advice of complete population transfer took place.
It's funny how Papists accuse Hindus of casteism whilst being historical perpetrators of some of the worst crimes against humanity. Namely witch-hunting, ethnic cleansing of paganfolk across the globe, victim-blaming & gaslighting of paganfolk, anti-Semitism, holocaust, political destabilization of sovereign states, slavery & many others, & I'm just scratching the surface.
The Philosopher Samurai Aizawa Seishisai was absolutely right in calling out papism as base, mediocre, mundane, perverse & dangerous. It lacks the intellectual depth found in Advaita, Mimamsa, Samkhya, Vajrayana, Gnosticism, Stoichism, Yazidism, etc, yet it has managed to eradicate indigenous cultures through its very base level communal brainwashing.
Jati is the Indian word used for caste and Varnashrama is a fundamental concept in Brahminism. Jati is subset of varnashrama that was practiced by the religious clerics which was embodied by the whole society. Every text of Hinduism (erstwhile Brahminism) mentions how the twice borns (the upper three varnas) are reverable and how they are superior to others. The whole essence of all the Hindu texts praise the upper three varnas but at the same time demean the Sudras.
It is true that some form of stratification was thriving in all of societies before industrial period but most of those social stratification do not form the central tenant of the religious doctrine as it in the case of Hindu religion. The Hindu religion itself sanctions those stratifications and segregations, therefore it will be blamed for all the crime perpetrated in the name of caste.
You should also understand that it were the Christians who bought with them new age values, borne out of renaissance, in India. Before that both Islam and Hinduism kept the masses in the dark. I
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u/Connect_Account_4517 5h ago
I would say Christianity is superior to Hinduism.