04-11-2008, 06:05 PM
<i>It is a standard tactic -- whenever Christians are caught doing something reprehensible, the Goras try to label them as belonging to a narrow sect that is on the fringes of mainstream Christianity. This way, they can keep lookin good. The same trick they played with Hitler who is even today claimed to be not a Christian, which is total lie. With other faiths, they take the opposite route. There, they take reprehensible behaviour of fringe elements and claim it is a major characteristic of that faith. </i>
It is that and much more. A standard approach by Western columnists is to refer to Hinduism as a cult, albeit less so than some decades ago.
Which is a supreme irony-the Bible in all its uncouth smiting and poking and harloting, with a messianic figure offerring protection from the anger of his father and everlasting destruction to non-believers is passed not as the cult that it defines but as a model of religious sophistication.
What is of course pathetic is the utter non-chalance of the idiots in the Indian opinion forming press. I guess they need to consider their next free meal.
It is that and much more. A standard approach by Western columnists is to refer to Hinduism as a cult, albeit less so than some decades ago.
Which is a supreme irony-the Bible in all its uncouth smiting and poking and harloting, with a messianic figure offerring protection from the anger of his father and everlasting destruction to non-believers is passed not as the cult that it defines but as a model of religious sophistication.
What is of course pathetic is the utter non-chalance of the idiots in the Indian opinion forming press. I guess they need to consider their next free meal.