Jainism on Trial

While heathen religions can be tolerated, there is no place in our nation for kafirs who believe in no God at all. The has charged the Jains with being kafirs, non-believers in God, and have held a debate before the our ruler to settle the matter.\n\nThe argue that the Jains hold no belief in one who is pure, without physical form, changeless, sinless, emancipated from rebirth, passionless, independent, a slayer of sins, and the architect of all joy. This conception of God, they argue, is shared between Muslims and Hindus but absent among Jains.\n\nThe Jain monks present at the debate fervently repudiate this view. Opting for flexibility, they put forth a multitude of Jain doctrines to demonstrate their theism from the worship of Jina to the very concept of Dharma.\n\nUltimately, it falls upon the our ruler to decide the fate of Jainism in our nation. We must consider which argument we find most compelling.