Actual christianity has social class. At the top are the monarchs and later prime ministers and presidents and then it goes down from their.
You see initially the social classes were not meant to be discriminated against in India. Actually the symbolism was that the lower classes were the ones who did all the labour. After all in any society you need to have a bluue collar labour force. Which was excatly what the bottom classes were. Theny ou had the merchants aka the buisnessmen and skilled workers as in any society.
Basically the social class of hinduism was originally meant as a way to classify different social strata and teach them how they should act. In fact nowhere does it say t shun the lbour. Actually they were respected for the work they did. Now you see temples at the time were like monastries.
Basically think of hindu temples as being similiar to mount athos or other holy christian places where really only the preists visit.
This was how temples were created. Now it was possible for a lower class labour person to rise in rank. It was unlikely but it could occur like in any other society. So how can you expect commoners who havent been enlightened or realized to enter these holy places. Look at Valmiki for excample, he was not a brahmin but because he did much hard work and became enlightened he became a great saint. That basically implies that if one achieved realization or mastered the vedas then they would be allowed in the temple grounds.
Thats really the problem with hindu vedas is that in reality all the stories and epics are not true at all, they are just ways in which the yogis explained how the world works through stories so the common people can understand. Every vedic tale has a profound meaning behind it However this get misinterpreted as fact leading to much confusion.
Now over time of ocourse untouchables came to being but they were not their initially. In fact that had to do with sheer haughtiness and ego rather than the vedas.
THe problem is that due to this set in stone social strata the upper classes came to view the lower classes with distaste much like today.
So really you cant say christianity is not a system based on class. It is. As is islam and virtually every relegion. heck the whole world runs on a class pyramid.
Just to give you guys some clarification.
And like I said above, find a way to make reincarnation and god is in yourself and everywhere changed so they can be compatible somhow with christinaty. This IMO is the main problem. '
i am glad of your analysis of hindu society, ancient hindu society there was definetly vertical movement
Sage Valmiki - A guy belonging to tribal caste but is revered with his epic 'Ramayana'. i can tell you he moved from a tribal to a Maharshi (revered by gods and humans alike)
Sage Vyasa - A guy born to a fisherman girl but became the writer of another epic 'Mahabharatha'. They called him Veda Vyasa because he divided Vedas and they called him as none other than god Vishnu ('Veda vyaso bhagavan rishi'). he is revered by gods and humans alike.
Sage Vishwamitra - A guy born in warrior caste but became one of the greatest sages who wrote many stanzas in vedas.
Arundathi - she is born in an untouchable caste but sage Vashista married her and she became a wife of a great sage and she is revered by every caste during marriage ceremony. the hindu trinity of gods (brahma, vishnu, maheshwara) wanted to test her and were so impressed by her and wanted her as their mother and born to her as children.
these are some examples at the top of my head. Hindu society is very simple for followers but very complex for others and there are many misconceptions. Hindu society for it to survive thousands of years there is a simple logic which is misunderstood by one and many, even many hindus does not understand and try to pour oil into fire.