Christian gravity and Hindu gravity might seem like strange concepts, but they refer to the different explanations of the phenomenon of gravity from the perspectives of two major world religions, Christianity and Hinduism. Gravity is a physical property of Earth and exists regardless of whether any religion believes in it or not. It is a fact of life that does not require faith to exist. However, religious explanations of gravity have varied throughout history.
Key Takeaways
- Gravity is a force that exists regardless of religious belief
- Hindu scholars justified gravity as the nature of Earth, similar to the nature of water to flow and fire to burn
- Hindu philosophers explained the concepts of a globular Earth, its rotation, and gravity over a millennium before Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton
