Only the truly religious, can respect all religions
and revere them. Jyothi from the village, says of Christ, "He is also a
good God". Annasamy Anna says, "There are as many routes to God, as
there are paths to a village."
Those supercilious of religion, the Nehruvian secularists,
cannot respond to the deviations in religion like Hindutva, because they
do not even know religion. And also these secularists are among the most
intolerant groups. Usually their religion is modern science. Science is the most intolerant religion
– as what cannot be proved in its terms, it claims does not exist. In this arrogance
and the stupidity it dismisses the religious as superstitious fools
The modern, scientific person, supercilious of
religion, does not respect any religion, including his own - he only has
disdain for all religions. He looks down on the religious in a subtle way as
the 'superstitious'. The sad part is that that means looking down on the
people of our villages - and that is
a monstority ...
Shiv, "… Contrast this with the manifesto of the
scientific temper which sees religion as superstitious and contaminating.
Science is almost seen like a vaccine which one injects into a people to grant them immunity against
superstition. There is an illiteracy to science here. It never understood the
creativity of the scientist, Jagadish Chandra Bose, who borrowed ideas from the
Shakta tradition or Ramanujan, who claimed that the Goddess of Namakkal came to
him in a dream and rolled out her tongue and on it was written a theorem. "
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