> and condoning violence Almost all Hindu gods carry weapons. There are stories where they fight and kill demons, and stories where they or their avatars kill

> and condoning violence Almost all Hindu gods carry weapons. There are stories where they fight and kill demons, and stories where they or their avatars kill their own relatives (sons, mothers, brothers etc). The Bhagavad Gita itself, essentially,[1] is Lord Krishna convincing Arjuna to finish what he started and wage war against his cousins and their allies in order to uphold dharma. I don't know where from this idea came about that Hinduism is a pacifist religion. The itihāsas and purāṇas are page after page of scoundrels violating dharma and meeting their comeuppance; it is bloodbath on a colossal scale. Everything is fair in service of dharma. [1] There are as many opinions on the Gita as there are interested people.