What are some good books critical of Buddhism and Hinduism?

I'm looking for some serious books that analyze Buddhism and Hinduism (sacred texts, beliefs, practices) and point out inconsistencies, things that are clearly wrong, and probable non-divine sources for both faiths (came from an earlier religion, for instance). No, I don't have a particular grudge against either faith, and no, I'm not looking to read a book that is bigoted or poorly researched. Thanks.|||You could try "The Kingdom of the Cults" by Walter Martin. It covers those religions and atleast 100 others.|||I'm not sure, you can try to check out the links at the bottom of this webpage:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_o鈥?/a>





Sorry, I can't be of more help.|||First of all, anyone who tries to "criticize" Buddhism, Hinduism and any other "Religion" would necessarily do it from their standpoint, which would mean it's a biased stand.





For example, you'll find that Mullah Zakir Naik, who is a rather street smart charlatan, knows a collection of verses from the Hindu "Scriptures" that he'd learned from "Hindu Scholars" who had earlier drawn parallels between their concept of Hinduism and the Desert Messianic Faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Now, Mullah Zakir Naik, who is a self appointed "Dr.", uses these to sound like he's a savant.





If you are as unbiased as you claim to be, try to study the Oriental Faiths yourself.





You might benefit from that.





Just to provide you with a small sample of what you would be against, if you try to see the Oriental Faiths from a Desert Messianic Faith perspective, here are a few facts.





Both Buddhism and the Sanathana Dharma, aka Hinduism, have undergone many changes over the millenniums that they have lasted. They have assimilated a lot of folklore from many a culture foreign to themselves; while still maintaining the core beliefs and tenets of the original.





None of the Oriental Faiths originally even spoke of the Beginning and the End of Days. Their reply to that question was simply - No one has this Knowledge.





God, to them, is not a He nor a "Sky Daddy". It's a phase or a stage of Human Evolution.





Ergo, "God" doesn't give Mankind "Dominion over all Creatures". Man is just another of the denizens of Earth and must respect the Rights of all other animate and inanimate objects, according to their Philosophy.





Their Philosophy doesn't have any Commandments nor any set of "Thou shalt not..."





There are a lot more of this kind of thing, but, let's stop here.





Now, you can either view these Concepts as "Heathen and Pagan" or as Advanced Thought.





The "Critics" usually opt for the former because they "believe" it makes more sense for them "see" it from their own convictions that some Male Entity suddenly decided to make this whole thing that we call our Universe and said things like "Let there be Light" and there it was !?





Now, this is the "Critic" who claims to be a Savant and "believes" that an Entity like he has been told by someone from a period where they didn't even know how build a toilet, that he was told this by some servant Entity called an Angel, if not "God" Himself!? This is a person who did not even ask the most common sense question - "How could an Entity that didn't have any concept of what Light could be like, and could not posses vocal chords to "say" this with, do such a thing?"





Now, you can see for yourself what an uphill task it is going to be for you to find any worthwhile "Critic".|||This link may be a introduction on the basic differences on buddhism and popular two philosophies of Hinduism.


http://www.veda-academy.com/articles/ved鈥?/a>