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ABOUT WORLD RELIGIONS AND THEIR INITIATORS
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ABOUT WORLD RELIGIONS AND THEIR INITIATORS: the need to distinguish between the two.
[The ills associated with a particular religion basically reflect the mindset of the followers.]
Those who insult religious leaders do a wrong act. They wrong humanity itself. Religious leaders have a large human following and shape the course of human destiny. It does not lie in the mouth of a squeaking individual, centuries later, that the leader of his times, and of times to come, was a rogue or charlatan.
Leaders are human, be it Ram or Krishna or Moses or Jesus or Mohammed or Gandhi. Pointing out a flaw in them proves nothing. They are remembered and revered for what they taught. They and their teachings can’t be held responsible for wrong acts on the part of followers. The maker of a movie can’t be hanged because someone who saw the movie was inspired by it to murder somebody.
In that light, no guilt attaches to what the personalities named above did. If people followed them in their life time and later, they must have been worth following. We, centuries later, have no authority to decide whom others should or should not have followed earlier.
The ills that attach to Christianity and Islam today are not the ills of Jesus or Mohammed. They are the ills of a socio-cultural-political milieu that characterized the Arab and European mindsets in those times. For example, given that mindset, Europeans would still have tortured and massacred the native Americans and Australians as also Goans had there been no Jesus ever. A plunderer will plunder, in whosoever’s name. The same applies to atrocities in the name of Islam.
The essential determinant of the mass behaviour of society is its culture and philosophy. It is universally agreed that these were highly developed in India 13000 years ago. Mesopotamia was another centre of culture a little later, but that culture was destroyed by the Arab marauders in the name of Islam. Roman and Greek cultures came later but were also learned, but they were overpowered and replaced by Christianity. In India, the culture continues. In spite of all the songs hailing the British as having a penchant for preserving the old, it is the Indian culture that stands the proof of actual demonstrated traits. The USA has no culture to speak of. That is why it behaves like a bull in the china shop, toppling and crushing this regime here, that country there, as if its sole pre-occupation is to make itself and break others.
M C Gupta
14 September 2009
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