They say ignorance is bliss.. Exactly how??? Knt said, "The caste system, wife burning, dowry, not to mention that Hinduism is patrilineal, which as the term implies is totally sexist"! What wife burning system are you talking about?? Is it mentioned in any Vedas or holy scriptures that your wife be burnt?? NO right? So please don't bring up the non-existent tradition just to make fun of someone's religion.... And if you really wanna talk about sexism, why just start and end at Hinduism?? Don't you think it existed and still exists everywhere-in every culture and every part of the world... Talking about the burning issue, have you forgotten the so called witch burning tradition that once prevailed in the United States???? I agree Caste system is a derogatory practice, but it was started as a system of labor division and later on was badly exploited.....Again, it's not the religion's fault that its followers misinterpreted its words for their personal advantages... Again, Dowry is not a part of the religion... It's just a practice, a tradition and now people are slowly changing their perceptions towards the practice... If you really hate something, just say that you hate it.. You don't really need to weave some nasty and half baked assumptions in your mind for the reasoning....