[QUOTE=thomas;40405]Are you citing a valid source or pulling this stuff out of your nether regions?
From the perpective of Catholics and probably every major Protestant denomination, Gnostics were not Christian. [/quote]
I will be very honest, I don’t care what your perspective is 
I care about what the facts say. The facts say one of the sects of the early Christians was the Gnostics. We have actual clear evidence in the form of manuscripts from that era. This makes them older than your own sect of Roman catholicism.
So they have as much right to be called Christian, as you claim. Now, the fact that you don’t claim to be Christian is basically your intolerance and disrespect for this sect and bigoted dogma where you believe your own sect defines Christianity. This may convince your own kind, but it does nothing to convince others.
Your source for this statement? Or is this your opinion stated as fact?
You should be the last person to ask for facts Anyway, there is no historical evidence for Jesus, outside of what we find written in the bible.
From a Christian perspective, ALL THINGS were created through Christ, the founder of Christianity. So any good thing that Hindus knew were because of Christ, and they owe their existence to him as does all humanity. Hinduism and other religions may have traces of Christianity, as there is but one truth, but all the truth that God chose to reveal to man subsists in Christianity, in perfect and uncorrupted form.
Like I said, there are your beliefs and then there is facts. The facts show that Hinduism is at the very least 5000 years old and at the most 10,000 years old. Christianity is 2000 years old. Islam is 1400 years old. Buddhism is 2500 years old. Judaism is 3000 years old.
The Vedas are dated at the very least 1500BC and at the most 6000BCE. Jesus, if he existed at all, appeared in 1AD, 6000 or 1500 years after the Vedas.
So it is very clear that Christianity did not inspire Hinduism to any rational and sensible person. However, as Hinduism is older than Christianity by at least a millenia, there is a greater case for Hinduism inspiring Christianity.
It’s not known as a fact, but “more or less” a fact? What does that mean?
It is known that Hindu doctrines appeared in Greece and Babylonia, but it is not known how this transfer of knowledge and culture happened. Hence why I say “more or less a fact” It is speculated that the original Hindu philosophy travelled to Greece through the Persians, as there is evidence that Greeks and Hindus had contact via the Persians prior to Alexandras attempted invasion of India. The other possibility is an even older contact as the Greeks and Hindus both belong to the same Indo-European culture and share a common cultural origin.
Older doesn’t mean better or free of error, and doesn’t mean that it’s the origin of all religions, either.
I never said that because it is the oldest it should be free of error. It is clearly the origin though because we can trace the movement of the religious ideas from India to Judea by studying history. Christianity is really a syncretic religion which has formed out of a fusion of various cultural influences Jewish, Platonic, Buddhist, Mitra cult.
“Everybody” is quite a stretch. I don’t know of anyone, myself. Most people have no interest in yoga, including Hindus, it seems.
There are more people practicing Yoga in America than there are members of the Southern Baptist Church. The estimates range from 20 million to 30 million Americans practicing Yoga. A large segment of these are actually Christians, and Christian churches themselves are offering Yoga classes. There is now even Christian Yoga and Praisemoves. There has been alarm raised by many Christian leaders on how much Yoga has penetrated not just into America, but into Christianity itself. Like it or not, Yoga is taking over Christianity 
There is reality and then there is what you believe
over to Surya